The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time By Christopher John Boone Analysis

Prime numbers are like life, they are very logical but you can never work out the rules no matter how much time you spend thinking about them. Does that make any sense to any of you? To Christopher John Francis Boone, the main character in Mark Haddon’s novel, The Curious Incident of the dog in The Night-Time, it does, in fact, he knows every prime number up to 7057. Christopher is a 15 year old with Autism Spectrum Disorder, specifically, Asperger Syndrome. Christopher is very gifted in math and science but lacks in social skills.

The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night Time is unique because it is the first novel written in the first person by an autistic teenager, and clearly shows the way an autistic person reacts to social encounters
This dream that Christopher had says a lot about autism. It According to Wendy Chung autism is not a single condition, but rather, a spectrum of disorders, from children who are non-verbal, who communicate by using an i-pad to a little boy, who, when he gets upset, starts rocking, and eventually when he is disturbed enough, will bang his head to a point where he cuts it open. The policeman was asking Christopher too many questions about the death of his neighbours dog, his brain could not absorb all the questions and information he was given, so Christopher hit the policeman. This is how Christopher reacts to social
Instead of going outside to play, he would stay inside and draw and when I would speak to him he would not listen and sometimes he would leave the room while someone was speaking to him. This frustrated me, a lot, why would he not listen? did he not care? what was wrong? We later on learned that he had Asperger syndrome, the same syndrome that Christopher suffers from ,I would just like to clarify that I by no means consider autism as an abnormality I use the word suffer to demonstrate the severity of how people in the book perceive his social abilities . Reading this book helped me when communicating with my cousin, instead of getting frustrated, I was more understanding, I know now that like Christopher, he is not able to register emotions as efficiently as a regular person could, he does not react to facial expressions and does not understand the correlation between someone’s tone of voice and the emotion at hand and that most of all, he wants to be alone.

I would now like to address Christopher’s personality all the while disregarding his mental state. Christopher is very honest, every thing he says is direct and straight forward he never adds too much detail, he explains things exactly the way he sees. Christopher is also brilliant, an example that exhibits this trait is that Christopher takes a much