Christopher Boone Narrator

One night 15-year-old Christopher Boone discovers that someone killed his neighbour's dog, Wellington. Upon this discovery, Christopher as a first person narrator decides to write a murder mystery novel, recounting how he solved the case. Although it’s not directly stated, the narrator's text implies that he has an autism spectrum disorder called Asperger’s Syndrome. We can infer this because he displays traits of the disorder. For example, it’s difficult for him to understand social norms such as body language and other forms of human interaction. Nonetheless, to make up for this shortcoming he is incredibly adept at problem solving and mathematics. Although he is talented in logic based skills, Christopher as a narrator is unreliable because
To emphasize, when his father shouts at him for not listening, this can only be mean anger, and when there are tears he can only be mournful. In this situation, Christopher incorrectly assumes that the cause of his father's anguish ought to be the death of their neighbour's dog, Wellington. Though in reality, this anger and frustration reflects Christopher’s reckless abandonment of his own safety. As consequence of such misinterpretations; even though Christopher is honest in his account of events; he cannot comprehend or recognize nuances in the temperaments of other characters. Ergo the reader must make these connections on their own as the narrator fails to convey the aforementioned abstract concepts. In conclusion, Christopher, as a narrator afflicted with Asperger's Syndrome is incapable of describing the complete human experience. His first person narration is forced through a filter of subjective bias due to his ignorance of emotional interaction. Nonetheless, though he is talented in logic based fields, the narrator is unreliable because he is only capable of limited communication and conveying biased perspectives. How can we trust such a compromised