Dog In The Nighttime Betrayal

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime definitely depicts acts of betrayal. In this novel, the main character Christopher is betrayed by his father in two main ways that affects his life immensely. The first thing that Christopher’s father does is lie to him about killing Wellington the dog. The second thing that he does is lie to Christopher about the fact that his mother was actually alive. Without the acts of betrayal in the novel, it would be dry and boring.

The first act of betrayal is to get the reader interested in the novel again. The novel starts out with the murder of Christopher’s neighbors dog Wellington. Christopher feels that he needs to solve the mystery of who killed him. To do this he starts asking the neighbors