Essay about The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time

Title: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Author: Mark Haddon Text Type: Murder Mystery The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery with an interesting twist. Christopher Boone is the main character and he is a fifteen year old boy with Asperger’s Syndrome. He is a mathematical genius, but he has trouble understanding other people’s emotions. When his neighbours dog is murdered he decides to carry out an investigation to find the murderer, but he ends up discovering a lot that will change his life.
This book definitely changed my way of thinking because I used to be slightly reserved towards people with special needs. When I read this book I realised that people with special needs are very capable of lots of ordinary things, they just see the world around them in a different way – Often in a far more simple way. ‘I find people confusing. This is for two main reasons. The first main reason is that people do a lot of talking without using any words’. Christopher. Christopher Boone is a lot more bright then lots of people without autism and it is wrong to assume that autism equals stupidity. I am going to prove that I’m not stupid. Next month I’m going to take my A level in Maths and I’m going to get an A grade’. Christopher. I admire Christopher Boone because he has high aspirations. Throughout the whole novel Christopher kept on striving to achieve his goal of sitting A level maths. ‘I have to go back because I have to sit my maths A level’ Christopher Christopher is very organised and he is superb at keeping things in a nice order. Often this means he will do things in a very logical manner.
Lots of teenagers aren’t exactly the most organised (often anything they interact with becomes clutter) so I admire Christopher’s organisational skills. ‘I said that I liked things to be in a nice order’. Christopher. I recommend this book to anyone who is tired of reading books that seem to have the same plot line. This book is refreshingly different-it’s not every day someone finds a book about an autistic boy investigating a dog murder. This book portrayed a clear image in my head of the events in the novel without becoming over descriptive. Because of this I would label this book a rating of 10/10.