The Curious Incidents Of The Dog In The Night-Time

The Curious Incidents of the Dog in the Night Time

The story “The Curious Incidents of the Dog in the Night-time” by Mark Haddon is a mystery novel written by the main character, Christopher Boone, about his adventure with finding his dead neighbors dog outside of his house. Initially, he is the one blamed for the dog’s death, but he works his way out it. He was then told to forget about the crime, but instead he goes in depth to find out what happened. Ultimately, he was lied to about his family and during his solution of the conflict, he finds happiness. Conflict is the reason why this story turns out to be such a surprising mystery story. Mark Haddon manages to bring us on an adventure deep inside of Christopher’s severely logical viewpoint

The death of the dog means nothing but an outburst of anger by his father and everyone looks past it except Christopher. When he originally finds out what happened, he went to tell everyone. Of course, everyone was in disbelief and that there was a dreadful misunderstanding. After such, his father pressured Chris into repairing their relationship that had been torn. He does so to explain how much Chris is hurting him. Christopher’s violent outbreaks left deep scares on the people he was living with, so to repair what went wrong, his father was trying to do so. Stephania disagrees with Elizabeth, as she believes that “Christopher seizes the opportunity to draw inspiration from the violent death and write his own mystery story”(Ciocia). The death of the dog is the main conflict of the story and it opens up the door for the resolution that will come. Christopher’s self-awareness eventually extends to his own storytelling process, a task undertaken in response to the invitation of one of his teachers, who suggests that he should try and write something that he would enjoy reading. A fan of Conan Doyle, Christopher seizes the opportunity to draw inspiration from the violent death of his neighbor’s dog and settles down to pen his own ‘‘murder mystery novel’’, combining a

The book states it as autism but regardless; Chris has something holding him back. The struggle to become independent begins to build a fire under him, as he wanted to find a role for him in this world. Because of his condition, it makes it harder for him to become independent. Elizabeth explains the conflict of Christopher’s mental disability as the protagonist in this story. She goes into detail about how “Christopher thinks everyone is less intelligent than him: He praises his own intelligence on multiple occasions, while describing all the other disabled kids at his school as “stupid” and simultaneously trivializing their disabilities by saying that everyone has difficulty learning some things” (Bartmess). She explains Christopher as how he thinks he is the smart one and everyone else around him isn’t as smart as he is. Stephania agrees with Elizabeth’s explanation as she too calls Christopher the protagonist against his mental disability. “It is Christopher’s inability to empathize with others that presents him from even wondering about the exact nature of his parents and the Shears Household” (Ciocia). She goes into detail about how his mental disability causes many issues when finding his