Curious Dog

Diversity in Life Throughout the novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, emotions are the most challenging problems of all for Christopher. Christopher Boone is a mathematically fifteen year old gifted boy with Asperser’s syndrome. The syndrome enables him to see the world only through his limited perspective, which is closed, frightened and disoriented. For Christopher, the desire for logic and order is actually a necessity of living: “as he suffers from Asperser’s Syndrome, a high-functioning form of autism, he needs an ordered and logical life in order to stay happy and safe” (Study Guides & Essay Editing). He engages with animals eagerly because he understands animals easier than people. Being different, being other in other words diversity is a major theme of this novel. Christopher is a brilliant boy, his brain functions in an orderly way. He is a mathematical savant, very observant, and he has a photographic memory. Christopher knows every prime number up to 7,057 and he knows every country and its capital. Regardless of his great knowledge, he is not capable to understand human behavior and emotions. “The rule for working out prime numbers is really simple, but no one has ever worked out a simple formula for telling you whether a very big number is a prime number or what the next one will be” (Haddon 10). Christopher cannot understand things the normal way, but instead he has to think the mathematical way. “I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them” (Haddon 12). Christopher states that he understands there are rules to life, but there are too many for him to understand such as human behavior, emotions and metaphors.
Christopher's sense of order is made by himself. For example, “Mr. Jeavons, the psychologist at the school, once asked me why 4 red cars in a row made it a Good Day, and 3 red cars in a row made it a Quite Good