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

Christopher’s lacking in his irrational behavior The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a novel written by Mark Hadden talks about a boy named Christopher, who goes on a journey to discover numerous of incidents that occurred during his lifetime. Simon Stephens directed this play because it had a variety of central and governing issues in the characters for the audience to understand. One of the characters that have most of these issues is the fifteen- year- old protagonist Christopher. He has a special need called Asperger 's syndrome, which is a developmental disorder characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, along with restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and

Christopher showed his reasonable behavior from time to time from the play as lacking. In the beginning of the play, the dog wellington was murdered and Christopher was at the scene of the crime. At the scene, police were asking questions to people around the scene of the crime and wanted to ask Christopher a few questions. Shockingly, Christopher slapped the police when the officer touched him. He was sent to the police station and was let off with a warning. After he was released from the police station with a warning, his dad explained to him that you should not be hitting a police officer. According to Christopher’s world, he thought it was necessary to hit the police officer for touching him. If the audience was in the exact position as Christopher, they would say to the police, “Please do not touch me.” Another situation that Christopher shows his lacking in reasonable behavior was when he wanted to investigate the murder of the dog. He went to every house on the block which included Mr. Thompson, Mr. Wise, and Mrs. Anderson for any information. It had got to the point where Ed found out and told him to stop doing this investigation. The Audience would think that this is another scene that lacks reasonable behavior because this is the detective job to ask questions about a murder mystery not a high school student. Although Christopher’s irrational behavior towards the police

Throughout the play, Christopher lacks on his common sense considering that he speaks the truth. A scene that showed his common sense being lacking was at the train station. This was Christopher’s first time taking the train and he does not know what to do, so he told the policeman everything including his dad’s credit card and pin number so he can get money out of the ATM machine. In the play, the police officer had to calm him down by saying, “Shhhh, why don’t you and I take a stroll to the cash machine, eh?” (Stephens 47) . The audience knew that his common sense was lacking at this scene considering that you do not tell strangers about everything that is occurring to you, they may steal stuff that you have or point you to the wrong direction. On the other hand, this is the reason why the policeman wanted to take him off the train because he spilled the beans about his father’s credit card and his home address, which made it simple for the Station Policeman to contact Christopher’s father. Another scene that shows his common sense was when he was taking the A-level Math exam. After traveling back and forth from swindon to London, Christopher showed up to his exam exhausted. He says, “I can see the questions but I can’t read the questions because when I look at the words they all seem confused and mixed up and the wrong way for me” (Stephens 80). The proctor of the exam