An Analysis Of The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time

In life, one of the many things that people should do is make goals. However, there will be many obstacles that prevent one from getting to where they want to be. By conquering these obstacles, one would prove themselves worthy of achieving such a goal. In The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon, Christopher John Francis Boone is an autistic child who reaches many of his goals and in the end of the novel, he says that he “can do anything.” Christopher’s confidence in saying that he is able to do anything is supported through the success he had in overcoming obstacles to complete his previous goals. Many believe that Christopher really cannot do anything because it was mostly other people doing the work for him, rather than Christopher working towards the goal himself. One example of this was when he was trying to achieve the goal of solving the mystery of Wellington’s death. After Christopher had recovered from reading the letters that his dad hid from him, his father “rubbed his face with his hands and pulled his chin down with his fingers and stared at the wall […] And he said, ‘I killed Wellington, Christopher’” (120). This shows how Christopher did not have to do anything to find out who killed Wellington. For this reason, opponents believe that …show more content…
One example of this was when Christopher managed to get to the train station. The obstacle was that he was lost and did not know where the train station was, so he found it using the following method: “If something is nearby, you can find it by moving in a spiral, walking clockwise and taking every right turn until you come back to a road you’ve already walked on, then taking the next left, then taking every right turn and so on” (139). By using this method, Christopher was able to overcome the obstacle of not knowing where he is and arrived to his train