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