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

Award winning English novelist, Mark Haddon, in his mysterious book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Haddon tells the story from the point of view of an Autistic 15 year old boy named Christopher Boone and how he tries to solve the mysterious death of a dog named Wellington across the street in front of his neighbor, Mrs. Shear’s house. Haddon tells his story on how Christopher finds Wellington with a garden fork sticking up out of the dead dog, which sparks a fire in Christopher to find who killed the innocent animal. Christopher’s father is very adamant to letting Christopher do his “detective” work. Haddon’s purpose is to show the point of view of someone who is in the Autism spectrum and how they think and how their mind processes situations in order to produce and different view on Autism. He establishes a curious and adventurous tone for people who do not have Autism and can not understand what goes through a teenager who has Autism.

To anyone in the world who never has had to experience Autism or anything along the lines of that, they would have moved on from seeing a dog with a garden fork in it, they would not have shown as much dedication as Christopher did. Christopher’s tone in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is mostly honest, more straightforward and intense dedication. He puts himself in situations just to talk to anyone who would know why anyone would want to harm a peaceful and innocent animal like the dog Wellington. In result of Christopher’s Autism, he never gets the jokes people say to him or around him and he takes them literally and not in a joking manner like people who don’t have Autism would, such as“I laughed my socks off” or “He was the apple of her eye”, when he knew that you could not laugh your own socks off and no one has an apple for an eye or that has nothing to do with liking