The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time

In the novel “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time” by Mark Haddon truth is a recurrent theme. It features a young protagonist called Christopher who suffers from Asperger’s and lives with his father. The story begins when he is confronted by the murder of his neighbour’s dog ‘Wellington.’ Christopher believes in obeying rules and always telling the truth however sometimes this can be a hindrance to him. Christopher’s inability to lie does hold him back and create more difficulty in his life and this is demonstrated in the troublesome situations he finds himself in.

The first passage reveals the parallel suffering occurring in the lives of different members of the family, which emphasizes the echoes between the sufferings of the father and the narrator. The narrator’s father’s despair over having watched

Christopher took the tube in London and managed to find his way to his mother. Without Ed’s lie, Christopher would have never been able to learn as much as he did.

When Kevin sees his father almost dying, he begins to think of the fatherless children in the world. He extends grace towards fathers in general by thinking how important a role they play in a child’s life, regardless of the mistakes that they might make. After thinking about fathers in general, he then thinks about his own father and as Bailey puts it, “ The caring-the carefulness-which was the belief in holding on to something worth preserving and passing on. Love. Kevin felt the tide of emotion that had been at its lowest ebb flowing back into him again. He looked to his Dad”. (259-260). Instead of remaining angry at his Dad for previous conflicts or for accidentally shooting his brother, Kevin extends grace to his Dad when he chooses instead to think and remember about all the love and caring his father has ever shown him. When he begins to feel that love for his father, his emotions pick up and that gives him the grace to keep on going without emotionally breaking down.

– Chapter 167. In this quote, Ed confesses to killing Wellington which escalates the whole situation. Christopher is forced to accept two conflicting truths at once and although his father lied and hurt him; he still loves him and wants him to be safe and this is an eye-opener for Christopher; that although people can tell lies, it doesn’t mean they don't love you. Another quote which has a lot of power is where Christopher says; “And I said "Yes," because loving someone is helping them when they get into trouble, and looking after them, and telling them the truth, and Father always tells me the truth, which means that he loves me.”

Another burden Christopher’s family laid on him was a massive amount of guilt. As mentioned above, Chris felt responsible for the ‘abandonment’ of Walt’s ex-wife and her children. Carine writes, “From the time we were small children, still unaware of how children come to be, I remember Chris being consistently told through our mother’s tears that the family struggles began with his birth, when she became ‘stuck’ with our dad. Chris carried this unfounded guilt with him until the wisdom that comes with age resulted in feelings of betrayal and eventually anger. This mislaid blame was never rescinded, only ignored.”3 Carine, Chris’s youngest and only natal sister, believed that the painful and unbearable family life that they endured provided Chris with a just reason to abandon his life. She respected this part of his motivation for leaving,

Literature is the medium through which composers convey their ideas and through where the complex interplay between ideas, forms, and languages takes place to provide us with important ideas. This idea is explored in Mark Haddon's novel "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time(CIDIN), where an individual ‘Christopher' acts as a protagonist. Through Christopher's unique perception, his struggle for independence and trust of family, responders learn essential ideas about acceptance, the value of relationships, speaking the truth and the need to feel empathy for individuals who have different ways of interacting with others. The novel, therefore, allows us to see how important ideas in the novel can lead to greater understanding and acceptance of others.

Christophers father should be forgiven for lying to Christopher because he was too emotional to think rationally and he did it so that he could try to protect Christopher from being hurt. However, Christopher’s father should not be forgiven for hitting Christopher and killing Wellington because this showed he may hurt Christopher in the future In the book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime Christopher and his fathers previously strong relationship suffers a huge blow after Christopher discovers that his father lied to him about his mother leaving them, telling him instead that she passed away in the hospital. Christopher’s father should be forgiven for lying to him because when he told Christopher he was too emotional to think clearly and the only

No matter how the father treated his family, it wasn’t all his fault, he was raised by a women who was by far more worse of a parent, and since he went through a childhood like that he had hoped that he would someday be a better parent but when he had realized of his failed attempt as a father he admitted this to his daughter and, hoped for her to be what he couldn’t have been. But moments of vulnerability and acceptance were very rare for the father.

Christopher John Francis Boone is the fifteen-year-old protagonist who narrates the novel “ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”. Even though it doesn’t refer in the book, Christopher has probably Asperger’s Syndrome which makes social attraction hard for him. An abnormal teenager who is incapable of telling lies, on account of that he deals with the world in a unique way. The qualities that I anticipate best sum up the main character are; doesn’t understand people, anti-social, highly intelligent/ logical and excellent memory/ observant.

Christopher gets overwhelmed by sensory data, like too much noise or too many new things in one place. In my case, I was dealing with too much internal turmoil. I would be stressed out because the papers were overdo, be scared that I would get a bad grade on the papers, and be dreading the long night ahead. To make matters worse, I would often deal with anxiety by watching television, temporarily delaying the inevitable for a brief moment of bliss, which put off doing the papers even longer. However, I soon learned if I spent a couple of minutes outside, it would help me cool my tension just enough to focus on one paper at a time. Unlike me, Christopher favors closed in spaces. The earliest evidence of this in the book was when Christopher says, “It was nice in the police cell (Haddon 14),” meaning he enjoyed being secluded in a

In contrast, his mother has been looking for him instead of losing him. His mother illustrates the worry and sadness of the protective parent. The urge for superior guidance into the world of innocence and evil is very

He is deeply shaken by the death of his father, betrayal of his mother, and his feeling of disgust between

Mark Hadden’s, ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time,’ follows a mystery written from the perspective of the novel’s protagonist, Christopher, a fifteen year old suffering from Asperger’s and a “mathematician with some behavioural difficulties.” His condition results in him speaking and thinking differently to the people around him. As this story starts off as a fast-paced mystery novel, it reveals the underlying and heart-wrenching story of Christopher’s longing to belong and be ‘normal’. The first person narration used by Haddon, allows the audience to have a deeper understanding of Christopher’s unique circumstances by writing the book in the form of diary entries. The killing of his next door neighbour’s beloved dog, Wellington,

I chose to write a diary entry by Christopher’s father, because he is one of the main characters in the novel whose emotions are not fully presented Furthermore, he has lots of conflicts with his family members, and there must be many possible response for the conflicts. The time period for the diary entry will be the day when Christopher’s father finds out that Christopher knows the truth about his mother and the day after, when Christopher escapes from his father. I chose to focus on this day because it is the day when all secrets are revealed, and therefore Christopher’s father should have strong change in emotion. The diary entry will reveal father’s complex feelings about his ex-wife and his son, Christopher. Because the diary entry