Rhetoric
In Mark Haddon's book, The Curious Incident of the dog in the Nighttime, the narrative is portrayed through Christopher, a fifteen year old boy who has Asperger syndrome. This syndrome affects his ability to effectively socialize and communicate as shown in the book.
Christopher varies his style of writing throughout different parts of the book. He often tells many unnecessary details of what is around him. For example," Then he said that we could go and he stood up and opened the door and walked to the corridor and and back to the front desk where I picked up my swiss army knife and piece of string and the piece of wooden puzzle...". These details use polysyndeton and are often not useful to the audience.
However, in other chapters he uses cumulative approach and starts directly with the main idea then later explains. In Chapter twenty-nine, he begins the chapter by saying, "I find people confusing.", then later states his justification for that statement. These different styles often can confuse readers and ineffectively share what exactly is going through his mind and how everything doesn't always relate. As the audience reads the book through his perspective, many are able to get a better grasp of how autistic people think and how their minds differ from our own, however some ideas, thoughts, and details are left out through Christopher's writing style.
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