Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Analysis

Trust is an assured reliance on a person’s character, strength and comfortability, meaning trust plays a major role in all aspects of an average human’s life, it is a pathway to building a comfortable, and safe environment for ourselves and others. Although people rely on one another, they are risking the fact that their trust can be taken advantage of, and could be led to betrayal. In the novel The curious incident of the dog in the night time, trust is something all the characters depend on, Christopher and his father are two of these characters. Christopher depends on his friends and family for support and for telling him the truth, but due to his lack of social interactions it tends to be very difficult for him to learn how to trust someone, and that if the trust it broken it will be harder to rebuild, his father also learn this.
Christopher lacks the ability to understand people and what goes inside their minds thus he has difficulty with social interaction; he tends to keep to himself and does not trust many people. However the people he does trust are very important to him and play a major role in his life, and in the novel. This trait of Christopher developed as a child, and was recognized by his teacher, Julie, “That was because when I was little I didn't understand about other people having minds. And Julie said to Mother and Father that I would always find this very difficult.” (Haddon 116).
Julie, had said this to Christopher and his parents when he was a young. As a child Christopher could not understand that other people had minds, he felt different and separate from others, and because of this, he would avoid having social interaction with