The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time By Mark Haddon

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is a 2003 mystery novel by a british writer Mark Haddon. This was his first book and in the same year as it was first published, he won the Whitbread Book Awards for Best Novel and Book of the Year. In 2004 he got another prize for his book, namely the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Overall Best First Book and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.

The 15 years old narrator of the story, Christopher John Francis Boone, suffers from Asperger’s Syndrome, a form of autism. He expresses himself in a simple and straightforward way and is unable to sort out the strange behavior of his elders and peers. One late night, he discovers the slain body of his neighbor’s poodle, Wellington, on the neighbor’s front lawn. Christopher resolves to find who has killed Wellington although the objection of his father and neighbors. He chronicles his investigation in a book, which is the book we have on our hands. Throughout his attempt in solving the mystery of the murder of Wellington, several hidden secrets erupted and were revealed to him. Will he be capable to undertake the major adventure in his life?
We are not only looking out on the world from Christopher’s perspective, but we are literally positioned in his shoes, holding the very novel that he is holding as he writes. For that reason, we always feel attached to him during his journey throughout the whole book. The story is told in the first person, therefore, Haddon endows us a VIP pass into Christopher’s brain. By allowing us to observe Christopher’s thought processes, Haddon even shows us our illogical world in all its duplicity. It opens our minds to the possibility of seeing the world through a different lens and that's an opportunity we'll