compare and contrast

Sherlock Holmes and Christopher Boone As I finished watching “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” I had noticed some similarities and differences between Sherlock Holmes from “The Hound of the Baskervilles” and
Christopher Boone from “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night­time.” They are both interested in solving mysteries, which have to do with dogs in both stories. In “The Curious
Incident of the Dog in the Night­time,” Christopher sees a dead dog in one of his neighbor’s garden, Mrs. Shears’s. Wellington, the dead dog was murdered with a garden fork, which leads to the idea that someone had stabbed him. As he saw the dog, he felt really emotionally. He also hugged the bloody dog, that was when Mrs. Shears, Wellington’s owner came out. She and the police officer accused Christopher for Wellington’s death. He had to go to the Police station because he hit the police man. He didn’t like it when someone touched him. But he left with a caution after his dad appeared. Since that day, Christopher had decided to find out the murderer of Wellington. While in The Hound of the Baskerville,
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson tried to find out the owner of the cane left in their office, then the unknown visitor had suddenly came back for his cane. The owner was James
Mortimer, who introduce them to the mysterious curse of the Baskerville.
Christopher and Sherlock are both have similarities by the interest in solving mysteries. Both of them investigating about dogs. Christopher wants to know who killed
Wellington, so he starts a detective work. While Sherlock tries to find out if the mysterious curse is true or just a saying. Although they are both intelligent and logical, they would notice a lot of things which other people wouldn’t. Memorizing is not an issue for them.Christopher can remember for a lot of things from his childhood, for example he remembers when he went

to the beach with his mother and remembered for all the details. Sherlock didn’t have to take notes either, his memory was as good as Christopher’s.
On the other hand, these main two characters have many differences. First of all,
Christopher is a 15 years old teenager who is autistic. But Sherlock is a grown up man, who has a lot more experiences and skills than Christopher. Sherlock is a really social person who likes to meet and talk with strangers, hoping that he might find the answers for his questions.
However, Christopher has some difficulties with socializing with people. He doesn’t like to chat with strangers because he doesn’t trust them. Autistic people can’t understand other’s feelings. For example, Christopher kept a paper with him, which contained drawings of people’s different types of feelings . When he couldn’t decide if someone was happy, confused or sad, he took out his little cheating paper. But it usually didn’t help. Another example of why they are different, is that Christopher wasn’t really the person who uncovered the murderer of Wellington. His dad was, who told him the truth about the incidence. While
Sherlock had observed and gathered all the evidence he could effort to find the person, who was the cause of the hound attacking people at the Moore.
In ‘The Hound of the Baskerville” Sherlock Holmes is a big inspiration for Christopher
Boone from “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night­time”. Christopher believes that
Sherlock Holmes is the best detective ever. That’s why Christopher tries to use his ways and methods. Besides them, they are not the only similarities and differences in these two stories.
There are another characters who also have similarities and differences, they are the dogs.
Wellington and the Hound are the other main characters besides Christopher and Sherlock.
But Christopher Boone and Sherlock Holmes are the “heros” or in an another word, the protagonists.