Christopher Boone's Life
Each person has their distinct characteristics--some prefer an easy-going lifestyle and enjoy their days while others prefer a well-organized lifestyle and set efficient goals. However, life is totally different for Christopher John Francis Boone, the main character in the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night-time by Mark Haddon. Christopher suffers from an autism-related disorder so he behaves and thinks differently than the majority of the people in society do. Christopher was portrayed as a strict person who cannot empathize with others. Haddon demonstrates Christopher’s mechanical nature by using his special rules such as not eating food that touches each other, differentiating his daily emotions by car colors, and using graphs to interpret people’s emotions.
Christopher has strict, yet special rules for his everyday life that is not common among other people. In one of the lists he made about …show more content…
Christopher believes that “4 red cars in a row made it a Good Day, and 5 red cars in a row made it a Super Good Day, and 4 yellow cars in a row made it a Black Day” (47). He also uses the car rule to decide his schedule for his day--whether he would go and talk to people to do an investigation or whether or not he would eat his lunch, which seems to have no logic for most other people. “The next day I saw 4 yellow cars in a row on the way to school, which made it a Black Day, so I didn’t eat anything at lunch and I sat in the corner of the room all day and read my A-level maths course book” (53). He decided his entire life by the meaningless rules he made by himself, which is based on the colors he likes -- red -- and the color he hates -- yellow or brown. The idea seems very naive and childish but Christopher treated them as codes for life and followed them, which demonstrates the very mechanical nature of his
Christopher has strict, yet special rules for his everyday life that is not common among other people. In one of the lists he made about …show more content…
Christopher believes that “4 red cars in a row made it a Good Day, and 5 red cars in a row made it a Super Good Day, and 4 yellow cars in a row made it a Black Day” (47). He also uses the car rule to decide his schedule for his day--whether he would go and talk to people to do an investigation or whether or not he would eat his lunch, which seems to have no logic for most other people. “The next day I saw 4 yellow cars in a row on the way to school, which made it a Black Day, so I didn’t eat anything at lunch and I sat in the corner of the room all day and read my A-level maths course book” (53). He decided his entire life by the meaningless rules he made by himself, which is based on the colors he likes -- red -- and the color he hates -- yellow or brown. The idea seems very naive and childish but Christopher treated them as codes for life and followed them, which demonstrates the very mechanical nature of his