Christopher Boone Incident

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Christopher John Francis Boone is a fifteen year old boy who suffers from autism. As the book progresses, Christopher develops steadily from an immature like child to a mature teenager with autism. With Christopher's love of dogs he solves a mystery case for the murder of Mrs. Shears, Christopher’s neighbour’s, poodle, Wellington. Once Christopher realizes that his father was the murderer, he embarks on a journey to leave his father forever and find his mother who lives in London. While on his journey to London Christopher matures greatly, reaches an understanding of the outside world, learns life lessons, and is able to interact with strangers. Christopher went from living a sheltered life
Christopher was not able to interact with people properly. Christopher could not speak with people he didn't know, and didn't like people he didn't know. “I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand" (Haddon 56). This shows how Christopher did not like strangers since he wasn't able to understand them. As well as not being able to speak with strangers or liking them, he was quite claustrophobic and when he felt the presence of many people, he would crouch and groan. When a person approached him and they either angered him or he was not able to understand the situation, his tendency was to hit that person. Christopher also did not like strangers. When Christopher didn't hit the person speaking to him he would cover his ears and groan until they left him alone. As the story progresses, Christopher comes to the realization that he has to rely on strangers to get to his final destination which was his mother's apartment in London. He speaks with the people at the information desks and a few people that had approached him, and managed to fend off his urge to crouch and groan when his claustrophobia kicked in. Christopher's experience in the train station helped him grow up in terms of his interactions with
As an immature teen, when Christopher was approached by someone he did not know and when he could not comprehend the situation at hand, he would strike them. "The policeman took hold of my arm and lifted me onto my feet. I didn't like him touching me like this. And this is when I hit him." (Haddon 8). This scenario occurred at the start of the novel when Christopher discovered a dead dog in his neighbor's backyard. A policeman had arrived at the scene and spoke a lot to Christopher, and Christopher could not process everything and collapsed onto the ground. The police officer helped Christopher to his feet causing Christopher to attack him. After being brought to the police station and shortly thereafter being scolded by his father, Christopher learned not to hit people, or at least to not hit a police officer. The life lesson that Christopher had learned about not hitting people or police officers were key attributes to his understandings of the world and helped him avoid potential