The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

The curious incident of the dog in the night-time starts when the protagonist, Christopher, finds a dead dog in the lawn of one of his neighbor's houses. He then goes on a search to find the culprit behind this murder. So he starts by, like, talking to all the houses behind his neighbor's house and finds out that no one knows about it. The actual neighbor just doesn't want to talk about it. Then there was Then he figured out that his mom was still alive because he looked in his dad's bedroom and and found out that his dad was the man who killed the dog. Thus ends my plot point by point analysis.

Okay, the book was quite a good book because the author really made it a good imitation of an autistic person, and that it was interesting seeing the world through the eyes of an autistic person and that made it interesting. (Editor's note - Agh! Do not use the word "interesting!") Um... and the author When Christopher finally found his mom, I found it strange that his mom didn't really care about him tenderly, but just knew all his interests and didn't care about him as a son.

I found it interesting (ugh!!!) that Christopher could think of his math test while he was in such a big crisis. To him, the math test was calming. I was a bit confused when he and his mom traveled back to his dad's house back to live, but then I realized that his mom didn't like his dad anymore.

Christopher has no friends. This is something of huge importance, because it demonstrates his detachment from society, and his sheer and utter loneliness in the world. He is estranged from his father, his mother has an expressly cool attitude towards him, and there is no one else that truly thinks like he does or can understand his way of thinking. The only exception might be a psychologist at his school, who took care of him and helped him function (at least tangentially) in everyday society.

Christopher may one day be integrated into society and more like an average person, but for now, it doesn't look likely as autism is a permanent condition. Blah blah blah Um.... So ugh his only real companions were his pets, like his dog and his rat. It just goes to demonstrate how he can't relate to humans. He thinks in a completely logical fashion, but this causes him to be completely baffled by the notion of emotion.

I can't think of anything so i'm thinking right now, um... I'm rummaging through my head for more things to say so that I can talk about more things to talk about the book. The fact that he goes on a search for the reason/murderer behind the dog's death shows that he can really relate to animals more than people.

I'm thinking again and still thinking. and Oh, The Curious incident of the Dog in the Night-time is an unusual book in that it comes expressly from the viewpoint of an autistic person's mind. Still thinking and rummaging through my head and thinking and thinking and still thinking and still looking through my head for something to talk about. And now I'm trying to talk faster so that Hans can't keep up with me.

Okay, Mark Haddon is quite an interesting writer becuase he sometimes puts in pictures and riddles and math problems to demonstrate all that is going on in Christopher's head. I think that Haddon has had to have experience with autistic kids to have bee able to write a book like this.

And now I'm flipping through the text.... I really like how Christopher explains himself every time he does something. It's way he uses the word "because" a lot. For example, this part says: "I like this bit _because_ science can always explain...." His actions are basically just a string of "becauses" and this illustrates his completely rational behavior.

 For a logically thinking person, it's very strange the way he looks at cars. If he sees yellow cars, he has a bad day, and if he sees a string of red cars, then it's a good day. For a purely logical person, these are moments of irrational behavior completely at odds with the rest of his mind.

When he has to relax or calm down, he always returns to mathematics. He does cubes in his head. This is a great book for psychologists for them to figure out how autistic people think. Of course, this might not actually be an accurate representation of what an autistic person really thinks, but only what Haddon's perception of them is.

Christopher wants to become a scientist, and obviously there are many social obstacles and other hurdles to overcome before he can do so. But the fact that he went to London all by himself and wrote a book to boot means that there's not a lot he can't do if he just sets his mind to it.