Dog In The Nighttime Character Analysis

The novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon, and the movie Star Wars: The Force Awakens by J.J. Abrams show these three character archetypes well and comparably. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime is about a boy who tries to solve the mystery of a neighborhood dog murder while discovering some hidden truths about his past. Star Wars: The Force Awakens is about two people from opposite worlds joining the Resistance against the evil First Order that is trying to control the galaxy. A hero has heroic qualities and is total good, a villain has no heroic qualities and is total evil, and an anti-hero is a mixture of both, but normally on the good side. The hero and the anti-hero are main characters of …show more content…
An anti-hero is someone like Christopher's dad in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime. He does a lot of bad things, most notably kill a dog. After he dies all the bad things, he goes to see Christopher, who is with Christopher's dad's ex-wife, to make things right. "And Father said, 'I'm going to see my son. And if you try and stop me-'" (Haddon, 197). The reason he did all of these bad things is because the circumstances that led to having to care for his son alone, without any assistance. He loved his son and he didn't want his life to be any more difficult than it already is. This makes him an anti-hero, doing the wrong things for the right reasons, and not a villain. A villain is someone who is evil and has no morals, like Kylo Ren in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. He is the son of Han Solo, and turned on his uncle, Luke Skywalker to be a part of the evil First Order. After Han confronts Ren, Han tries to tell him to come back to the good side, and Ren responds by killing his father. This show's Ren's full turn to the dark side, because killing Han with little to no mercy is not something a good person would do. He would be an anti-hero if had a good reason or justification for killing Han, but it was for Ren's own selfish needs, marking him as a total villain. While an anti-hero may do some bad things, it is not like a villain who has no good or reasoning in them

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