The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Character Analysis

Change, it is nothing one can truly be prepared for and predict. It can affect everything or nothing. Who changed, in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon? Who be so different throughout the book to change the story and the reader’s perspective on life and what comes with in it. Christopher, Ed, Christopher’s father, and Judy, Christopher’s mother, are the three characters who have gone through very major changes and developments. These main characters in the book undergo such a drastic change in the eyes of the reader, making them the opposite of who the reader thought they were at the beginning of the novel.

Judy, Christopher’s mother, is an important character in the book that ends up caring for Christopher despite

He becomes worse throughout the book in the eyes of the reader. In the beginning of the novel, Ed shows us that he is good with Christopher and good for his son as a father. Christopher illustrates, “[Father] held up his hand and spread his fingers outs in a fan… and we made our fingers and thumbs touch each other” (16). When they put their hands together, it shows that they love each other. Ed is willing to love his son even though he hit a policeman which he should be punished for. At the end of the book it all turns around and it is revealed that the father what one would have thought. Near the end of the book Ed says to Christopher, “I killed Wellington, Christopher” (120). To Christopher this is devastating and it breaks the bond, trust, and connection that they had with each other. This occurred because Christopher cannot believe that his very own father killed his favourite dog and never told him about it until now. Even though Ed thought that he was protecting his son by not telling him, he made the situation much worse and it made his own son scared of him and not want to live with him. This is the proof that Ed went from caring father to one where his own son could not bare to live with him making him the opposite of who he was at the beginning. Through the examples I gave about Judy, Christopher and Ed there are a ton of changes and developments for the good and bad