Dog In The Night-Time

A Modern Play that People Can Understand The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a novel written by Mark Hadden talks about a boy named Christopher, who goes on a journey to discover numerous of incidents that occurred during his lifetime. Simon Stephens directed this 21st century play because it had a modern take of central and governing issues in the characters for the audience to understand. One of the characters that had the majority of these issues is the fifteen- year- old protagonist Christopher. He has a special need called Asperger's syndrome, which is a developmental disorder characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, along with restricted and repetitive patterns

Christopher showed his reasonable behavior from time to time from the play as lacking. In the beginning of the play, the dog wellington was murdered and Christopher was at the scene of the crime. At the scene, police were asking questions to people around the scene of the crime and wanted to ask Christopher a few questions. Shockingly, Christopher slapped the police when the officer touched him. He was sent to the police station and was let off with a warning. After he was released from the police station with a warning, his father explained to him that you should not be hitting a police officer. According to Christopher’s world, he thought it was necessary to hit the police officer for touching him. If the audience was in the exact position as Christopher, they would say to the police, “Please do not touch me” and the police would stay away. Another situation that Christopher shows his lacking in reasonable behavior was when he wanted to investigate the murder of the dog Wellington. He traveled to every house on the block which included Mr. Thompson, Mr. Wise, and Mrs. Anderson for any information about the murder. It had reached a boiling point where Ed found out and told him to stop doing this investigation. The gives the audience to think that this is another scene that lacks reasonable behavior because this is the detective job to ask questions about a murder mystery not a high school student. Although Christopher’s irrational behavior towards the police officer was childish, at the age of fifteen, his behavior logically took a big toll when the truth was given to him from his