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Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time

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The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time, written by Mark Haddon.Is a compelling tale of a young autistic boy, and how he deals with the world around him. The book is written from the perspective of a young boy Christopher John Francis Boone. The story starts one night in his hometown of Swindon when Christopher finds his neighbor 's dog dead. Christopher sits there shocked hugging the now dead dog wondering “who had killed him, and why?”. Christopher sets out to uncover the mystery, but it 's not easy. In a misunderstanding of the crime and a policeman 's poor understanding, Christopher hits the police officer and is sent to a jail cell overnight. He is let out only under a stern warning and a condition to them and his father that …show more content…

Christopher John Francis Boone is Autistic he is 15 he lives in a town called Swindon with his father he can only read the most basic of human expression and can 't understand things such as sarcasm, metaphors and similes, he cannot lie and struggles to understand the basic meanings of things.Christopher is a compelling character who helps us understand what daily life may be like for an autistic child living in the modern day world. I reacted to Christophers character with a high level of emotion, every page turned was another look into what an autistic child 's can be like, a child suffering from abuse, a child suffering from bullying and a child suffering from griefs life. Christopher portrays so many issues for young kids, which almost any teenager can find a way to relate to it, Christopher 's character really makes you think before you judge someone that you don 't really know.This book communicates a lot of things about society and human experience. Autism is a very real thing, even though this novel is fiction the themes are very real such as divorce, parents drinking, abuse and of course disorders & discrimination because of it. Christopher deals with all of these struggles in his life because he is “different” and society doesn 't like different and it looks down upon different, making this world a hard place for all these people.Throughout the book we are shown how christopher deals with this adversity with everything from mean comments to physical abuse from this I learnt a very valuable lesson in this text that is just because someone is different or sees the world in a different way to you doesn 't mean it 's the wrong way as well as you never know what someone has to go through just to fit

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