The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime Loss

Many novels have introductions that start with some sort of loss to grasp the reader's attention, but in the novel The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime by Mark Haddon not only does loss occur at the start of the story, but each main character endures the loss of someone or something important at some period in the story, and some of them alter their decisions based on their loss. Christopher, Ed, and Eileen all experience 2 losses throughout the story that had a great impact on their life. Some of these losses influence the decisions made by the characters who mourn, causing even more chaos in the story.

Christopher John Francis Boone is the protagonist of the story and the story is told by him. He is speculated to have Asperger syndrome “I knew that it meant "happy," like when I'm reading about the …show more content…
This causes Christopher to be a very independent person and to interact with fewer people meaning that Christopher knew very little people. Even though he knew a very small amount of people, he still experienced the loss of two very important figures in his life, his mother Judy, and his pet rat Toby. These 2 people are the most influential in his life, and losing them affected him greatly. He was lied to by his father about his mother’s “death.” A mother is a very important person in a child’s life, they raise their child, entertain