Analyzing The Book 'The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night'

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Sarah Benson English 10 Honors 25, May 2018 As the saying goes, “don’t judge a book by its cover”. This rule is not pointed towards getting people to read every book they pick up, but to help people get past the way a book looks and to read the story behind the cover. The first impression of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon, was a little rocky. The cover is bright orange color and has the cut-out of an upside-down dog in the middle. As soon as the first chapter was read the book got more interesting. Haddon’s book is told from the point of view of 15-year-old Christopher Boone; a high functioning autistic child – also known as Asperger’s syndrome - who tries to solve the murder of his neighbors’ dog along with