Christopher Boone

The book that I chose to read was The Curious Incident of the Dog At Night-time it is about a teenager named Christopher Boone and his life. The book is written from his perspective and talks mostly about his life with mild autism and his family relationships. Christopher’s autism makes what most people may think of as a simple task, very difficult. For example when Christopher had to ride the subway he was very scared, so much so that could barely function, this was triggered by of the amount of people around him. For me these struggles are not something I was familiar with before reading this book. This is because I myself do not struggle the same way he does also because, I had not taken the time to put myself in the shoes of someone who struggles this way.
Christophers family is very much broken, his mother left him and his father when he was young. Leaving Christopher's father to raise him. Instead of explaining to Christopher that his mother had left them he told Christopher that his mother had died. Later when Christopher found letters from his mother addressed to him he learns the truth, that his mother left him and was not dead. Again this is not something that I can heavily relate to given that I have never experienced a situation like this before in my life. …show more content…
Reading this book was very eye opening for me and made me think about things that I otherwise wouldn’t have really known about. Like how some people need to have things a certain way, before I read this book if I had heard about a boy who wouldn’t eat anything yellow I would have honestly thought that he needed to move on. However, after reading this book I realised that some people can’t eat certain foods, say certain things or control certain