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Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time

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It is inevitable that one will experience stress at least once during their lifetime. Oftentimes, stress impacts people in different ways that change how they view situations and the choices they make — especially in families. Christopher Boone, the protagonist of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (CIDN), by Mark Haddon, has a form of autism. Thus, he perceives the world differently compared to everybody else. As a 15-year-old boy, he does not tolerate being touched, does not eat food if they are touching, and hates the colors yellow and brown (Haddon 60). Because of Christopher’s personality, he must cope with his stress in unusual ways that create drama in his family. Christopher is honest and rational. He does not lie because he …show more content…

Christopher states that “I decided that the dog was probably killed with the fork because I could not see any other wounds in the dog and I do not think you would stick a garden fork into a dog after it had died” (Haddon 1). Christopher notices every little detail about situations he encounters, but the reader may understand the situation before he does. It is obvious to the reader that if a dead dog had been speared with a garden fork, then that must have been the cause of its death. Christopher’s stating the obvious makes the novel more comic. Adding to that, at first, when Christopher was reading the letters from his mom, he did not realize that his mom was still alive. He thought, “perhaps it wasn’t a letter from Mother. Perhaps it was a letter to another person called Christopher, from that Christopher’s mother” (123). At this point, the reader has already deduced that Christopher’s mother is still alive. Yet, he believes that his mother could be writing to another Christopher, which comes across as ironic. Given the evidence, Christopher’s thoughts and actions are funny to the

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