Due to Christopher's Asperger's syndrome, his view of the world is completely different, seeing things in a variety of different perspectives. Haddon's portrayal of Christopher Boone pushes the speaker to empathize and gain an 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 the values of family relationships and growth, all of which are extremely evident in the novel and are shown through the use of Haddon. of different narrative techniques. While 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 has difficulty understanding and relating to their thoughts and emotions. Christopher's difficulty communicating and understanding people's feelings is greatly influenced by his inability to read the facial expressions of others to gain knowledge of their thoughts and emotions. To demonstrate how Christopher overcomes this difficulty, Haddon uses a range 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, she showed me this photo and I knew it." it meant 'sad,' and 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 person alive on earth; And there was no one else in the world except people who couldn't read other people's faces and who didn't know what those pictures meant.Christopher struggles to communicate and understand the complex…math problems are used for show how Christopher calms down 'And I tried to figure out what I had to do, but I couldn't think because there were too many other things in my head, so I did a math problem to clear my head "The fact that Christopher is able of coming to terms with his condition and overcoming these difficult situations gives the responder the insight and understanding that not even a condition like Asperger's can hinder an individual from achieving their goals. Haddon's portrayal of Christopher Boone pushes the rescuer into a deeper understanding of the characteristics and challenges he acquired from suffering from Asperger's syndrome, and the rescuer is moved with empathy by the ways in which Christopher is able to overcome these difficulties, shown through Haddon's use of first-person narrative, emoticons, and visual representations.
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