Compare And Contrast The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime

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Christopher has a very special relationships with both his parents; however, one might be better than the other. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a novel by Mark Haddon in which a teenager with Asperger Disease takes you on his own personal crime mystery. Throughout the book Christopher runs into issues with his parents. At a moment in time he thought that one of them was dead and when he finds the truth he starts to separate himself from the one that lied. It's a battle between Father and Mother to see which one is the most merited for Christopher.
Father and Mother use to be a happy pair until something got in the way. Mother left not because of disliking Father but because of someone else. That someone else was Christopher,

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