Weekly Response

I've been thinking a lot about the next paper for some time now, and while I was unsure what text I wanted to use at first, I've finally decided to write my paper on Curious Incident. I'm really enjoying the book so far, and I think it offers a good point of view into the mind of someone with a "disability." Continuing on from my last post, I think I'm going to use that theory reading, in particular this quote:

"And yet scholars in disability studies are right to point out that literary representation of people with disabilities often serve to mobilize pity or horror in a moral drama that has nothing to do with the actual experience of disability." (Berude, 570)

I think Berude is correct in saying that a lot of novels do this. Curious Incident is different in this way, though. Haddon tells this novel from the POV of Chris, and while much of what Chris thinks and how he behaves are unfamiliar to us, the novel works to give us an idea of what goes through his mind and it gives us a better understanding of how he thinks. I think I want to do something with this idea, but I'm a little unsure still as to what exactly my paper is going to be about. I may go in with a second theory, Woloch's about the minor characters, and tell how Haddon uses them to show Chris's disability.