The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time Summary

In 2003 Mark Haddon won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award for his novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, a book that gives a realistic picture of how it should be to go as an autistic person through life. The book is a worldwide bestseller and won at least fifteen other awards. It is written from the person of Christopher, a boy with Asperger's syndrome. When Christopher found the dog of his neighbor killed in her garden, he decides to go looking for the perpetrator of this brutal murder. His quest, that leads to much more than just the culprit, is written down like how he has experienced that : very different than the average person.
The story is written in the first person. The whole story is told through the eyes of
First, the story is set in Swindon. This is the place where Christopher lives with his father. Christopher later moved to his mother in London and the story takes off there. The story takes place in a few weeks and is written in the present time. That's because they use mobile phones for example. there aren't used many difficult words in this book and therefore it is easier to follow the story. This book is aimed to people of my age, that’s why there are illustrations in it.
Christopher's parents are divorced. He hasn't seen his mother for a while. But on the way home his father told a shocking story, Mom had a heart attack and is deceased. At least that was what his father said. When Christopher was alone at home and his father was still working, Christopher looked into his father's room for his own written story that his father had snatched about who would have killed the Dog. In the wardrobe was a box containing his book and letters with his name on it. He decided to open them, they were written by his mother. Mother never had a heart attack and is not dead. Father lied about this. His father wanted to be honest with him from now on. He said, 'I killed Wellington, Christopher. And from that moment he could not trust his father anymore. There was an address on the letter from his mother, he's going to live with his mother. If father is asleep he sneaks out of the house and goes to London by train, he arrives
When I was reading that, I wanted to keep reading because it was very exciting. After living with his mother for a while, they go back to Swindon together to sort things out with his father. In the end, his father gets the chance to really apologize and he gets Christopher a dog, which he calls Sandy. He believed he can do anything he wants, because he solved the mystery of the curious incident and he was very brave while being on his own. because I've read this book, I immediately thought differently about autism. I previously thought that autistic people were weird, busy and stupid. But now, I see that autistic people have other things what they can do very good, such as Mathematics with Christopher
I think this story is not really happened, but it could be. But in the real world a dog doesn't get pricked with a fork and dies. There are many things that can really be true, such as the thoughts of Christopher and what his choises