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The Dynamic Character, Christopher
Christopher is an autistic boy in the story The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time. In this book, Christopher is a very dynamic character. In this book the author, Mark Haddon, presents Christopher as showing tremendous character development. Throughout the story, The Curious Incident of the dog in the Night Time Christopher develops key traits for him to solve the complex mysteries in his life. For the duration of the book Haddon, indicates Christopher as being anti-social, observant and honest. Together these traits evoke Christopher to develop being a good thinker from the IB learner profile. Furthermore, Christopher had learned self-management as a result of having to advocate for himself …show more content…

At the beginning of the book Christopher has always thought and wonder about the world around him and tried to make sense of it. For example Haddon writes “ I said that there wasn’t anything outside the universe, and there wasn’t another kind of place altogether. Except that, there might be if you went through a black hole.(Haddon 33)” This shows that Christopher has well thought out ideas and thinks them through constantly. He was explaining to Reverend Peters why heaven does not exist. During Christopher’s investigation, he is constantly thinking through endless possibilities on who killed Wellington. Haddon writes “ I had a stroke of inspiration about who might have killed Wellington. I was imagining a chain of reasoning inside my head which was like this. 1.Why would you kill a dog?(Haddon 42)” Christopher is thinking about the endless possibilities as to why someone would want to kill Wellington. This shows him thinking his way through the entire investigation. When Christopher finds the letter from his mom, he is tasked with another mystery. He thinks his way through certain difficulties to figure out his mom was alive and later finding out his dad killed Wellington. In conclusion, Christopher is a very dynamic character who develops significant IB and ATL traits as a result of his indirectly characterized character

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