The Curious Incident Of The Dog At Nighttime Analysis

Throughout reading the book The Curious Incident of the Dog at Nighttime, I began to interpretative Christopher doesn’t think normally and reacts differently in situations. This is shown when Christopher is taking to the police after finding the dead dog. This is also show when Christopher is physically sick to his stomach after finding out that his mother is still alive and that his father killed wellington. Another moment in the book that interpretative Christopher as someone that acts differently in situations is when Christopher runs away to see his mother in London. Overall throughout the book I got the interpretative that Christopher doesn’t think normally resulting in him reacting differently in situations.
At the beginning of the novel Christopher finds a dead dog and is confronted by the police in these situations Christopher acts differently. Christopher had just found the dead dog, Wellington, and reacts as stated “I stroked wellington and wondered who had killed him and why?”(2). normally someone who step back for the situation and call the police, but instead Christopher begins stroking a dead dog. After the police …show more content…
Most people react using common sense, but Christopher doesn’t understand the way things are and how people act, Christopher using mathematical expression to understand situations which often doesn’t result in understanding what to do. Christopher way of thinking is different from others and is showed in many different parts of the book some example is when Christopher finds the dead dog and is talking to the police officers, when Christopher’s father tells him the truth about his mother being alive and him killing Wellington, and finally all the different situations that he encounter on his journey to see his mother in London. Overall the book showed a different way of thinking shown through Christopher