The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a novel written by the British writer Mark Haddon that tells a story about an autistic fifteen-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone. Haddon portrays Christopher’s adventures as he tries to solve a murder mystery. He introduces the reader to his family, his teacher, his neighbors, his rat and he talks about many of the remarkable and strange details and information he keeps in his mind. This book is a kind of an autobiography that states the drama and the detective fiction of a young boy telling his story.

Mark Haddon wrote the novel from the point of view of an autistic boy and by that took us into the chaotic world of autism and created sympathy in many readers towards the boy. As the reader starts reading the novel, he begins to feel what it is like to live a life in which a person can not organize or eliminate information that pop through a person’s mind every moment of the day. An autistic person lives in the misery of chaos of information and his thoughts are always scattered and his mind is thinking of issues that are far from reality. This is what the reader sees in Christopher along the way while reading the novel.

Christopher is very innocent and honest, he views things logically and explains the words accurately; this makes him incapable of recognizing the signs which would alert him if someone is lying or deceiving or even teasing. "I find it hard to imagine things which did not happen to me," he says, this is the reason he is not able to lie. Christopher tries to arrange and connect with his world using the simple subject-verb-object sentence sample. Haddon uses humor as he tells the story in the aim of allowing us to see and realize Christopher's difficulties and giving us the chance to experience everyone else's frustrations when dealing with him. All Christopher's conversations and the events he experiences are recalled from his own point...