The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time Themes

One of the many themes of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is the struggle of life. From Christopher’s struggle to be seen as an adult and take harder courses, Father’s need to be free from the sadness of his wife leaving him, and Mother needing to be strong and be a good mother to Christopher. Everyone is struggling with something in this story and it shows that even when you think you know someone and what they’re going through you never truly do. Everyone is struggling with something no matter how big or small and that’s what makes you realize no matter how you feel you aren’t alone. Christopher’s struggles are taking his A level math tests, finding out who killed Wellington, dealing with the fact mother is still alive,

When Father gets home he grabs a beer and downs it showing that he’s chosen to numb his problems then deal with them. Christopher's father murdered Wellington out of jealousy. This fact shows that he doesn’t know how to handle his emotions or cope with the things that happen in life. Farther into the reason as to why is because Mrs. Shears and Father had been fighting, and he felt as though she loved the dog more than him. He lost it and killed the Wellington, which goes to show he isn’t very stable and when things don’t go the way he wants he loses himself. When Christopher goes for his night walk and finds Wellington stabbed with pitchfork and Mrs. Shears runs out to see this Father struggles with what he’s done and what Christopher saw before punching the police officer. Father struggles with the loss of his wife to an affair which causes him to date Mrs. Shears. The motive behind it being that Mother and Mr. Shears are together and to get back at the Mrs. Shear and he are together also. The entire situation is very messy and not handled in a good

Her love for Christopher was overshadowed by Roger and his dislike, disdain for Christopher. Roger refused to let her go see Christopher and if he would’ve seen the letters she had sent I believe he’d have hit her. From the little bit we see of Roger he is mean and didn’t truly care for Mother from the night Christopher gets there and Roger and Mother are arguing in the street violently and how she hints at it in her words. She tries so hard to make him happy with her but when mother and Christopher leave and she says, “... someone was going to get hurt. And I don’t necessarily mean you,” (209). This leads you to see that Mr. Shears has beaten her before, yet she is still with him but she fears him and you can see that through her actions. Mother struggles when she discovers Christopher’s dad told him that she had died from a heartattack and that’s why Christopher never wrote back. When she discovers this and hasn’t seen her son in years she’s overcome with anger and grief that she missed so much of Christopher’s