The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, written by Mark Haddon, is written from the point of view of a mentally challenged teenager named Christopher John Francis Boone. The novel begins at the murder scene where Wellington, Mrs. Shears’ dog, lays dead with a garden fork through its abdomen. This event sparks an idea in Christopher’s genius mathematical mind to take an interest in the subject English and write a book with his teacher Siobhan about the mystery of Wellington’s death. Christopher contacts other neighbors to discuss the truth behind the death, however Christopher’s “widowed” father scolds him for searching for information and confiscates the mystery book. As Christopher looks for the mystery book, he finds letters that his supposedly undead mother wrote him; Christopher’s father said his mother died two years ago from a heart-attack. Christopher’s father
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The true life of Christopher Boone, a mentally challenged individual, consists of an angered father whose parenting consists of cursing, and neighbors who get mad and need an innocent to blame. Christopher, first, hears cursing from his neighbor Mrs. Shears “What in fucks name have you done to my dog”(4), but Christopher does not understand that cursing shows anger. Later Christopher’s father scolded him for talking to neighbors about the murder and writing a book by saying “Holy fucking Jesus, Christopher. How stupid are you?”(81). The dialog, though makes it more realistic, criticizes Jesus and teaches children inappropriate language. The blasphemous dialog consists, also, of Christopher stating that evolution created the modern civilization, not God. Christopher thinks that people believe in God, because they cannot grasp the fact that the universe was created just by the Big Bang. Because this novel is aimed at teenagers, their developing views of life could be affected by the profane
The true life of Christopher Boone, a mentally challenged individual, consists of an angered father whose parenting consists of cursing, and neighbors who get mad and need an innocent to blame. Christopher, first, hears cursing from his neighbor Mrs. Shears “What in fucks name have you done to my dog”(4), but Christopher does not understand that cursing shows anger. Later Christopher’s father scolded him for talking to neighbors about the murder and writing a book by saying “Holy fucking Jesus, Christopher. How stupid are you?”(81). The dialog, though makes it more realistic, criticizes Jesus and teaches children inappropriate language. The blasphemous dialog consists, also, of Christopher stating that evolution created the modern civilization, not God. Christopher thinks that people believe in God, because they cannot grasp the fact that the universe was created just by the Big Bang. Because this novel is aimed at teenagers, their developing views of life could be affected by the profane