The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. The special protagonist Christopher is the fifteen-year-old narrator of the novel, at the start of the novel, Christopher is 15 years, 3 months and 2 days old. Although it is not mentioned in the book, it’s likely that Christopher has Asperger’s Syndrome, which is a condition on the autism spectrum. As a result, he experiences and deals with the world in a different way than most people. For example, he notices and remembers everything he sees, which makes new places extremely overwhelming. He has a hard time understanding simple things most people don’t even mind. I have got an excerpt from the book that describes and tells much about him (second quote). He doesn’t like being around people …show more content…
The book maybe presents him as an angry person, that’s because he doesn’t want Christopher to get in trouble. Ed is also holding a major secret for Christopher, he hides it from Christopher with lying. That is not all right what so ever. He has another huge bad secret he doesn’t tell Christopher about. Although he does two big mistakes, he really cares about him. He serves all his food, and helps him with other daily activities. It is up to you if you choose to like him or not. Christopher Boone is the “actual writer” of the book. He writes in it every day. The book is written from his perspective. Christopher is not that good at writing, so it wouldn’t have been able for him to write the book without help from his teacher, Siobhan. Siobhan is a very good help mentally and personally for Christopher. She is maybe the only person that really understand him, although Ed understands him well. She is not only teaching him professionally, she teaches him essential everyday things nearly everybody else understands. She cares about him when he experiences really sad and difficult things. All the happenings in the …show more content…
Which is Christopher's point of view. He writes what he means. He writes about his own thoughts, and not others. It's not Mark Haddon's words, it is Christopher's. That is huge. Because Christopher sees the world like nobody else. It wouldn't be the same if the story was told in third person, because then we would only hear about him. Now we are getting inside information from his brain. I am sure that if the book was written in third person, I would not like the book. When we get to know how he sees things, and think about things, the story gets more exciting and humoristic. That is because his brain works so uniquely that I get surprised by the way he thinks about things. Sometimes there are long sentences and train of thoughts, which emphasize how difficult life and things are for Christopher. The frustration of the adults is reinforced by
He says, "And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own and because I solved the mystery of Who killed Wellington? And I found my mother and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I could do anything. As a result of Christopher overcoming his fears and solving his internal conflict Christopher develops into a much more confident and capable version of himself.
It is also the introduction to why Christopher wrote the book. This passage also shows
Christopher’s parents, Ed Boone and Judy Boone, are very important people in Christopher’s life, as well as important characters in this novel. They play a big part in his life, he wouldn’t be the kind of person he is without their constant lectures and care that they provide. Both, the mother and the father, love and care for Christopher. “She had sent me lots of love and had my Get Well card on the table beside her bed.” Before his mother passed away, and even during her slow death, Judy continued to send love to her son.
Christopher Boone, the main character, has an intense form of autism known as Asperger’s Syndrome which immensely affects his social behaviors and ability to understand social cues. This is a personal challenge for not only Christopher but also those around him, especially his father. When Christopher was reunited with his father after temporarily being under arrest it is revealed to the readers that although Christopher is unable to understand complex emotion, he shares a special bond with his father. The action Christopher and his father engage may be described as an elongated high-five instead of hugging one another “Father wants to give me a hug, but I do not like hugging people, so we do this instead, and it means that he loves me.” This is also seen when Christopher becomes upset when Siobhan after she makes a joke in regards to Christopher
He is inflexible, making life more difficult for those around him, and he has rituals which he follows to the letter - even if they’re detrimental to his life. For example, the amount of red or yellow cars he sees on the way to school affects his behaviour throughout the rest of the day, even on some days choosing to stay in a corner and not talk to anyone. These patterns are irrational, unlike most of Christopher’s thoughts, and yet they follow a clear pattern. Mark Haddon’s depiction of Christopher is realistic and intended to paint him as a human first and foremost, if an atypical
In the book Christopher says,”I didn't speak to anyone and for the whole afternoon I sat in the corner of the Library
One of these are the reveal that Christopher’s mother was alive for the last two years. With this knowledge, Christopher goes to London and rekindle the relationships with his parents, resulting in a better life. All things considered, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” is not just a simple murder mystery novel, but a book about the fears of everyday people, which when confronted with courage, can end with success. When confronted with the murder of Wellington, Christopher begins to start to overcome his social disability by trying to solve it. Due to his love of dogs, something he is passionate about, Christopher
Christopher explains that he has difficulty figuring out people’s emotions from their facial expressions. He can easily recognize sad and happy faces, but when his therapist, Siobhan, draws some pictures of other emotions, he finds the faces are confusing and is “unable to say what these meant” (3). So he has to memorize the exact meaning of each face and quickly determine what face others are making when they talk to him. When his father lies to him about his mother’s death, he tries to figure out what he means how and his father feels: “I can't tell what [people] are thinking. It is like being in a room with a one-way mirror in a spy film''(22).
In conclusion, Christopher likes being by himself. Haddon makes us look through Christopher’s eyes in the book. We learn a lot about ourselves because of this. I realized that everyone is different and has a different point of view on everything. In the book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time it says “‘Special needs!
The role of adults play a crucial role in Christopher’s life, and his father is no exception. Ed Boone has been seen as a negative influence,, as he forces Christopher to be secretive, is very unstable, and uses crude language and physical force on his son, as well as lying about crucial parts of Christopher’s life. Christopher’s father often goes to extremes when demonstrating his emotions, occasionally blowing up in anger, and he lacks the confidence to work through his problems verbally. When trying to explain himself he stutters and stops and often has trouble connecting sentences. Like Christopher, he has very few friends—Rhodri is the only one the novel mentions.
Throughout the book Christopher overcomes all obstacles, big and small. Though some obstacles are small it still shows the reader that Christopher is willing to make the necessary changes for a positive outcome. One small obstacle that made a big impact on the readers
In addition, he can understand relativity with fluency, and can multiply numbers with ease. However, what greatly contrasts Christopher’s academic intelligence, is his social intelligence. For instance, Christopher cannot understand metaphors: “The second main reason [I find people confusing] is that people often talk using metaphors (16)”. Christopher describes metaphors as lies, which he takes very seriously. The reason Christopher takes lies so seriously is because Christopher’s entire understanding of the human psyche is dependent upon other people.
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time can be seen as a Bildungsroman, which is also known as a coming of age novel. Christopher the main character undergoes many challenges, steps outside of his comfort zone, and adapts to the “adult” world. Christopher has a mental illness known as Aspergers which affects his ability to effectively socialize and communicate with others. In the novel he begins to learn about the real world and grows throughout finding out who killed a dog named Wellington.
This proves how much father loves Christopher because he will sacrifice hugging his son for the most part and that should hurt a lot not being able to hug his son. There are lots of sacrifices Christopher’s father makes for his son, like not being able to hug him, or having to deal with him being “different” but he sacrifices it all because he loves Christopher. Furthermore, Christopher’s father is not perfect. He makes mistakes, some really big ones. Father hid Christopher’s mother from him for a really long time, but he did it to protect Christopher because he loves him and won’t let anything bad happen to Christopher.
In the book "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time", the character Siobhan is the most influential character to Christopher because she is helpful and trustworthy, which has given Christopher a good reliable person to talk to and work out his problems in life. Throughout the book Siobhan has helped Christopher in many different cases therefore being a very important character to Christopher. Christopher tells us how "I got Siobhan to draw lots of these faces ...When I told Siobhan that I was doing this, she got out a pencil and another piece of paper and said it probably made people feel very, :{ and then she laughed.... And Siobhan Apologized." (Haddon 3)