Q1: "The narrator of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is what disability workers would call a 'high-functioning' narrator, capable of understanding a great deal about the narratives he's read and the narrative he's in," (574).
"Disability and the Narrative" -Berube
Q2: "This is another reason why I don't like proper novels, because they are lies about things which didn't happen and they make me feel shaky and scared.And this is why everything I have written here is true," (203).
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time -Mark Haddon
Question: How does Christopher as a "high-functioning" narrator aid in the understanding of the novel for a reader?
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time positively promotes a narrator with a disability. Instead of making the text infinitely more complicated, like other horrendous disabled people (*cough* *cough* Benjy from The Sound and the Fury), the narrator's attention to the truth and a simple narrative make life pleasant. The novel is not as the narrator deems, "a proper novel" and this is something all the happy readers in the world are grateful for. Not only the former, but the simplistic approach the narrator takes isn't even so much simplistic as it is sheer brevity. And to quote Shakespeare, "Brevity is the soul of wit". And so this novel is A++.
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