Summary The Curious Incident of the Dog and the Night-Time is a mystery novel written by a

Mr. Boone is not completely evil because he has good intentions behind many of his misdeeds. He only wants what is best for Christopher. Mr. Boone accepts Christopher’s special needs and wants him to succeed in life. He helps Christopher a lot more than anyone else, even Judy Boone; Christopher’s mother doesn’t help Christopher as much. Although Ed Boone’s immoral actions were evil, the good intentions, helpfulness, and patience that he displays toward his son, Christopher proves that Mr. Boone is the evil figure with an ultimately good heart.

In the Novel, The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon, we are shown that the truth is not always accurate and that lies are sometimes necessary. Christopher Boone is a 15 year old who has Asperger’s Syndrome, which lies in the Autism Spectrum. Due to this condition Christopher does not understand emotion, metaphors – which he considers a lie – and knows all the prime numbers up to 7,507 as well as all the countries and cities of the world. Christopher’s life revolves around the truth and throughout the novel he is seen to grow and learn to cope with different things when dealing with lies. Most events in this novel are situated around a lie that has been told; nearly every character tells one and has to face the

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a mystery work of fiction by a British writer Mark Haddon, who was born on the 26th of September in Northampton, England in 1962, where he was brought up by an architect. Mark Haddon was educated at Uppingham School he then went on to his English Literature major at Oxford, Merton College. After completing his studies, he went to Scotland where he spent his time working with MENCAP which was an organisation that helped disabled people, this experience of looking after individuals who were diagnosed with autism and various sclerosis soon influenced him with his fictional writing. Having an interest in mental and physical health issues it encouraged Mark Haddon to start seeing the commonalities

Christopher Boone discovers a dead dog in the middle of the road. The curiosity of Christopher is what

What makes fiction novels especially interesting are the larger messages hidden within them. The novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon does just that. The novel centers around a 15 year old genius Christopher Boone who has a mental disability of some sort, struggling with communication because of it. The book is comprised of a murder mystery novel Christopher sought to write after discovering the bloody murder of his neighbor's dog, Wellington. Gradually, the story focuses away from the main conflict and morphs into a complicated story about Christopher’s life. With that, Haddon brings out the complexity and hardships of human life, specifically through the topic of truth and deceit. The truth comes out eventually; fabricating it now will only prolong the unwanted effects later. Also, lies ruin relationships, possibly for good.

Attention Grabber: In the “Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” we see a young adult, Christopher, traveling through life and overcoming obstacles he never thought he could.

Christopher has a mindset to what is important to him; he will even disobey his father’s orders to do what he feels is important. “I am going to find out who killed wellington” (Haddon 20). Wellington is a dog that Christopher cares about, and when he finds the dog dead, he vows to find out who murdered the innocent dog. Once he finds out who killed the dog he is horrified of the man. “I had to get out of the house. Father had murdered Wellington. That meant he could murder me” (Haddon 122). When Christopher realizes his father killed the dog he makes the connection that it was the right thing to do. Which leads him to search for his mother to get away from his father and find out the

This essay will be an analytical essay where the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon will be analyzed and interpreted. The focus will be on the language of the novel and the themes and messages.

The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, written by Mark Haddon, is a mystery novel about a young boy with Asperger’s Syndrome. Christopher Boone, the narrator of the book, compels the reader to feel the most sympathy towards him, due to his Asperger’s Syndrome. Not only is this portrayed by this affliction but also by his parents’ separation and losing the stability of a family life. Ed Boone, Christopher’s father, can be sympathised with when his wife leaves him and he struggles with being a single parent of a child with a disability. Mrs Shears has also suffered loss when her dog, Wellington, was killed and then when her husband left her for another woman. Haddon retells the life of Christopher Boone, through a variety of different techniques such as repetition, dialogue, expletive language and short sentences.

Father has murdered Wellington. That meant that he could murder me…”(122). For the sake of his own safety, Christopher decides that he must go to London to find his mother. On this Journey, Christopher's strengths and weaknesses have been challenged, but in order for him to discover the truth he must overcome these obstacles. Early into his journey, Christopher finds himself lost, frightened and alone. Considering Christopher rarely steps outside of his own hometown, he must learn to put his social anxieties aside as he experiences the pressures of London’s busy streets. When doing so, Christopher goes outside of his comfort zone, he ends up asking many people for instructions, and uses his own knowledge in order to figure out where to go. Christopher even risks his own life in order to save Toby, his pet rat. When doing so, Christopher overcomes these obstacles as he discovers the truth and realizes that maybe he is not so different after all.

In Mark Haddon's contemporary novel, "The curious incident of the dog in the Night-Time", the protagonist, Christopher Boone, does seem completely unsuited to narrating a novel, as he takes on his authorial voice, thus demonstrating symptoms of his disability, 'Asperger's Syndrome.' This is a syndrome that enables him to see the world only through his limited perspective, which is closed, frightened and disorientated - which results in his fear of, and inability to understand the perplexing world of people's emotions. His description of events can be somewhat unreliable as he is unable to see the real truths that lie before him. As he narrates, readers are confronted with his peculiarities - whether it is not liking to be touched, his fear

In the novel, “The Curious Incident of the dog in the Night-Time” by Mark Haddon, the protagonist, Christopher, is trying to solve some of the mysteries that surround his life in Swindon, and get to his mother’s place and back through a mature understanding of social integration. In Swindon, some positive influences of mother in his past lead to some maturity and parts of his analytical trait, but primarily, determination and immaturity direct Christopher’s autism when solving the mystery of ‘who killed Wellington’. During the transition from Swindon to Mother’s house in London, Christopher’s analytical trait is starting to be seen, and

Throughout the novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon, emotions are the most challenging problems of all for Christopher. However, beyond the drama of Christopher’s crises involving feeling, or interaction with other people, we glimpse a more general idea – that dealing with people and feelings is difficult. Discuss in relation to the themes and characters of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.

The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime is a novel that takes place in England, and is written from the main character Christopher’s point of view. Although this is the case in many modern fiction books, this story differs in one very important way. Christopher happens to be a mentally challenged teen and the book captures not only his actions, but also his innermost thoughts and feelings. Mark Haddon, the author, made a choice of narrator that greatly impacts the novel. This is because without insight into Christopher’s thought processes, it would be an increasingly dry and uninteresting read.

Christopher lives with his father as his mother had died two years ago. It was midnight, and Christopher was in his house. He looked out the window, and noticed the dog named Wellington seemed to be lying down on the ground. So he decided to go out and check on his neighbor Mrs. Spears’s dog, after all he liked dogs. But when he got to the dog, he could see a garden fork sticking out of the dog.