The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time By Mark Haddon

✰✰✰✰✰The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon. Realistic Fiction; 2003; 221 pages. This book is a national bestseller, focusing on a 15-year-old boy named Christopher Boone. Christopher sees the world divergently from the rest of his community. His mind works like a machine, almost perfectly when it comes to planning, memories, mathematics, and sciences. With this considered, there are other things he doesn’t understand—things that seem to come secondary to people other than himself, such as his mother and father. These phenomenons encompass when people say things they don’t mean or how random words simply put together can construct an entirely different meaning than what the phrase is saying. As these factors are combined, they leave the holder, Christopher, to be autistic. Even with his sophisticated and intelligent thinking, he will always seem different.

Using his unique mind, he immediately begins to form plans to solve the mystery that is: Who Killed Wellington? As Christopher sets out on this mystery, many things, internal and external, hold him back. He encounters people who are unable to help and understand him. These subjects include misinformed police, his classmates, his neighbors, strangers, and even his family. Working alongside the people in his life are other elements that he can’t understand or avoid. These include colors, cars, buses, and food. So, he uses his thinking to avoid these elements; but this only leads to him finding more paths than he had initially expected, making the mysterious case he set out on much more personal and