Analysis Of Mark Haddon's Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night '

The first scene from Mark Haddon’s, the curious incident of the dog in the night-time, that I chose to write about was the paragraph “And I said ‘Yes,’ because loving someone is helping them when they get into trouble, and looking after them, and telling them the truth, and Father looks after me when I get into trouble,… and he always tells me the truth, which means that he loves me”(pg. 87). In this paragraph, Christopher replies to his father that he does know that his father loves him, by mentally defining what he believes the word love means, and then using examples of what his father does to reason that his father loves him. I chose this scene, because throughout the book, you get the sense that Christopher is detached from others and has a hard time understanding emotions and people. Yet, in this scene, you see a somewhat touching moment where Christopher views a topic, love, in a way we can understand and relate. This scene gives Christopher
In this scene, Christopher has said the name Mr. Shears, to which Christopher’s father exclaims that he doesn’t want that name to be said in their house. When Christopher asks why, his father calls Mr. Shears evil, and Christopher asks if that means that Mr. Shears could have murdered Wellington. I chose this scene, because it implies that Mr. shears has done something to Christopher, his family, or just in general that could be considered evil. This not only adds insight onto Mr. Shears character, but also hints that Mr. Shears and whatever he has done will become an important part of the book later on. And I’m not talking about him killing Wellington, even though this conversation further cements into Christopher’s mind that Mr. Shears should be the prime