Dog In The Night-Time

In the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon, I interpret the main character Christopher as contradictory. He is shown to be a really smart kid, but he’s also pretty clueless in other subjects. He’s a really nice kid, but he can be really rude and insensitive. Lastly, he can come off as being really mature – and he does act like it – but he is actually really immature at times. Christopher is a brilliant kid. He knows his prime numbers, explains how Marilyn vos Savant was correct when it came to the Monty Hall Problem, and passed his A-level exams with an A grade. But when it comes to his social skills and common sense, he is pretty clueless. He doesn’t understand facial expressions all too well, to the point where he needed a sheet with the faces labelled to show what they meant. Christopher doesn’t understand certain sayings, like when the police officer came up to him in the train station, he asked, “Anyone at home?” (p.148) and he didn’t understand what the officer meant. Another example of Christopher not understanding social situations is when he finds the letters from his mother. Chances are the readers understood what was
He speaks very formally and acts as though an adult would, and wanting to be independent, as shown by rebelling against his father and him fantasizing about being alone and doing what he wants, along with his reoccurring dream about him being one of the few people left on Earth. But we are also told that Christopher has a lot of behavioral problems, some of which he hasn’t grown out of. For example, when Christopher is with his mother, he has screamed in public because “Mother said she had rung Mrs. Gascoyne and told her that I was going to take my maths A level next year (p. 206). He has also stopped eating so his mother “made me a chart with stars on it like when I was very small” (p.