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Essay / Analysis by Christopher Boone - 789
Due to Christopher's Asperger's syndrome, his view of the world is completely different, seeing things from different perspectives. Haddon's portrayal of Christopher Boone inspires the respondent to feel empathy and understanding of Christopher's condition. As Christopher continues to struggle with many different experiences, we are introduced to different concepts such as social interaction, his understanding of the truth and values of family relationships, and growing up, all of which are extremely evident in the novel and are shown through Haddon's use. different narrative techniques. As Christopher struggles with many everyday situations such as social interaction, he finds it extremely difficult to communicate with the other characters in the text as he finds it difficult to understand and relate to their thoughts and emotions. Christopher's difficulty communicating and understanding people's feelings is heavily influenced by his inability to read other people's facial expressions to better know their thoughts and emotions. To demonstrate how Christopher overcomes this difficulty, Haddon uses a series of emotions throughout the novel to demonstrate how Christopher realizes the feelings of others as well as his own: "Eight years ago, when I first met Siobhan time she showed me this photo and I knew it. meant “sad,” that’s what I felt when I found the dead dog.” The use of emotions is also used later in the novel when Christopher explains his favorite dream of being the only living person on earth; And there was no one else in the world but people who couldn't read other people's faces and who didn't know what those pictures meant. Christopher has difficulty communicating and understanding middle of paper......problems. Math problems are used to show how Christopher calms down. “And I tried to figure out what I should do, but I couldn't think because there were too many other things in my head, so I did a math problem to get my head clearer . » "The fact that Christopher is able to accept his condition and overcome these difficult situations gives the speaker insight and understanding that even a condition such as Asperger's cannot prevent an individual from achieving their goals Haddon's portrait of Christopher Boone brings the respondent to a deeper understanding of the characteristics and challenges acquired through suffering from Asperger's Syndrome and the respondent is empathetically moved by how Christopher is able to overcome these difficulties, illustrated. through Haddon's use of first-person narrative, emoticons and visual representations.