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The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time

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Having autism is very unfortunate. It is difficult to live with and hard to connect with others. There are over one hundred thousand people that have autism in Canada. Mark Haddon's novel The Curious Incident of the dog in the Night-Time is about a boy named Christopher John Francis Boone who deals with autism. Christopher is a really smart person but just can't connect properly with others and he also knows all the country, capitals and every prime number up to 7057. Christopher receives big lies throughout his life. Christopher is trying to figure out who killed the neighbor's poodle named Wellington and at the same time, he finds the truth about his family and his mom. In The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, Haddon uses symbolism, …show more content…

(The lie breaking the family, loving for his mom) By Christopher leaving his dad it breaks their trust with each other and chemistry after how long they have been living together. As soon as he read the letter from his mom he felt love for her back as he never seen her in a long time. Later on this causes a big kaios for his dad as he runs away as Christopher love couldn't be stopped for his mother. Christopher mentions he doesn't care about someone or feel love for someone when their dead but that was before he had believed his dad lie. This could of been fixed from the beginning if his dad just told the truth. By doing this Christopher would of stayed and their family wouldn't be devastated. Haddon conveys the message through the use of the symbol the dog that the father gave. Mother and father and Christopher are in Christopher's dad house and their family is back together. Christopher dad apologizes of what he did and buys Christopher a dog: “Then he came back through and gave me the dog. And he said he's two months old and he's a golden retriever the father said, Christopher I would never ever do anything thing to hurt you’’( Haddon219). The dog

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