Analysis Of The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time

Autism is a disorder that affects the way your brain processes information; normal tasks would be hard for them while tasks that would be hard for a normal person are easier for them. In The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time Mark Haddon tells a story about a boy named Christopher who has a form of autism called aspergers. In the book he has to do a lot of things that would be hard for someone with autism but for some things like math are easier for Christopher. Some of these tasks are as simple as trusting his father, but because of one thing that happened he lost all trust for his father. One of Christopher’s first major accomplishments was how he used his detective work to find out that his mother wasn’t dead, because his
The next thing he remembers is his father coming home and finding him with all the letters and the vomit all over him, his father then starts to apologies over and over again, and he then reveals that he is the one who killed Wellington. After his father fall asleep Christopher decides that he can’t live with his father anymore so he decides that he is going to run away to his mother. He takes the train to London where his mother lives, when he arrives at the station he has no idea what he is suppose to do, he sits at a café for 3 hours and a cop comes up to him to see if he is okay. The cop then helps him get his ticket to London and sends him on the train. When he got on the train the same cop tries to stop him because his father was looking for him. A quote from the book to prove how scared he was on his trip was “I climbed in to the luggage rack across from the toilet and pulled luggage in front of me so that I was enclosed and I felt safe” I felt like this was a good quote because it shows that he was really scared and he still pulled through to finish what he needed. When he got to London that was only half of the battle because now he had to go to Wellesden and to get there he has to take the subway, so he hides in a photo booth and watches how other people get in. When he gets in the boarding
When Christopher came home after his exams all his father wanted to know was how they went but Christopher was not trusting him so when he said don’t know If I got all the questions right because I was really tired and I hadn’t eaten any food so I couldn’t think properly” it shows that he is slowly starting to trust him. When his mother went to work Christopher had to stay with his father but when he went there he would go in his room and push his bed against the door so his father couldn’t talk to him. One day when his mother and father were both there his father asked him to give him 5 minutes to talk to him “so I sat there on the armchair and mother was in the hallway and father and him make a deal that they will spend more time with each other even if it was only 3 min as long as they are progressing” this shows that Christopher is willing to work out things with his father.
At the end of the book Christopher has a lot of accomplishments and he finds out his mother is not dead by using his detective work. He makes it to London all by himself by building up his courage and conquering his fears. Christopher also starts trusting his father again after everything that his father did. To Christopher this proves that he is brave enough to do anything he sets his mind