The Curious Incident Of A Dog In The Night-Time Analysis

The world is full of many different books, but sadly not all of them can be considered “good.” A classic book is a book that a widespread group of people label as “good,” with an influence wide enough to be recommended by schools and colleges for their students to read. One of these such books is The Curious Incident of a Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, except the fact that this book, while commonly loved by many, is on its own not a good piece of literature, as it is filled with a number of flaws such as an incomplete story line and a lack of character development. One of these issues is an irredeemable cast of supporting characters, as both Christopher’s father and mother show potential in the story to be interesting and enjoyable …show more content…
There was this kid I knew for most of my years of high school, I met him during sophomore year, who I, for some reason, really wanted to be friends with. He was a transgender guy in my class, and we talked quite a bit during my sophomore year, we were pretty good acquaintances, and I thought that since he was transgender, no matter how rude he appeared to be, he would be a nice person since he had most likely experienced discrimination and probably knew that it was good to be kind to others. Sadly, I was wrong about this fact, it turned out that marginalized people, like transgender people, can still be terrible people, as I found out in my junior year of high school when we shared a chemistry class. In this chemistry class, him and I sat at the same table together with a few other people, including a very good friend of mine, when one day I heard him telling somebody that he hated girls that had crushes on him. I decided to enter the conversation, but then he started kind of looking at me funny, so I asked him what was going on, and I found out that he thought I had a crush on him, which when looking back, I can see why he might have thought that, since I was trying really hard to be his friend and was acting a little clingy, but this actually was not true. I told him that I didn’t have a crush on him, that I just wanted to be his friend and a day passed but that day I wasn’t sure he believed me so I did something impulsive and said, right in front of him and our entire table, that I wasn’t attracted to transgender people, a sentence which, as reported by The Daily Beast, can be seen as transphobic to some people (Allen). He got very angry at me for saying that to him, and he yelled at me that I was being transphobic and that I was a terrible person, it effectively ended our potential friendship,