Dog In The Nighttime Analysis

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The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time has a realistic storyline. The book is based off of a teenage boy that has Asperger's syndrome. As Asperger's is a real syndrome that 1 in 68 children have, the novel written by Mark Haddon provides numerous incidents in which a literal teen with Asperger’s would act and react. For example, in the beginning of the book, Christopher’s teacher showed him pictures of various facial expressions like confused, worried, determined and so on, but Christopher simply could not understand what they all meant. In chapter 13, page 5, Christopher explains that the mystery book “...Will not be a funny book. I cannot tell jokes because I do not understand them.” This statement means that because Christopher