Christopher Boone

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is an award winning mystery novel written by Mark Haddon and published in May 2003. The book follows the story of Christopher Boone, a 15 year old autistic boy who embarks on a crime-filled journey to find out who murdered a dog named Wellington. However, he ends up finding out more than what he anticipated for with the discovery of his mother still being alive, which then lead to the disintegration of his relationship with his father. The book is set in a small town called Swindon, located in the southwest of England in the year 1997. The book captures the essence of life and how people don't always respond to obstacles in reasonable ways as well as how people are constantly making mistakes;

Ed loved Christopher very much, but at times was possessive and controlling over Christopher, often not including him in important decisions that Christopher deserved to be included in. Because Judy had left him for another man he was feeling broken and damaged so he wanted to get back at Judy for the pain that she had inflicted on him, so he told Christopher his mother was dead. Ed justified the corrupt act by coming to the conclusion that he was in fact protecting Christopher: “I did it for your good, christopher. Honestly I did. I never meant to lie. I just thought… I just thought it was better If you didn't know” - Ed page 143. Whilst what Ed did was unquestionably wrong, it is understandable why he did it and even if he may have done it to hurt Judy, he always had christopher's best interest at heart. Ed definitely struggled with dealing with his emotions, he always bottled everything up because he felt as though he couldn't talk to anyone because the person he trusted most left him which then unfortunately led to Ed being emotionally unstable. After Christopher found out about his mother being alive, Ed realised that instead of helping Christopher he emotionally bruised him. Because of the chaos Ed caused, he realised he needed to let go of all the hate and pain he was holding onto so he could step up and be the father that Christopher needed. Throughout the book

Christopher is very closed minded at first and is set in a very particular way of life, only seeing the world in black and white. In the novel Christopher goes on a wild goose chase to find out who killed his neighbour Mrs shears dog, but it turns south when in the midst of the chase, he finds letters that were written by his mother who he thought was dead but had actually moved away to London. After this discovery, Christopher is heartbroken and feels betrayed by his father for not telling him and he also finds out that it was actually his father who killed wellington. Now that christeroher knows the truth, he does not feel safe at all so he heads off to London to seek refuge with his mother. The trip to London was not at all easy for Christopher especially because he went to London via public transport so he was forced to interact with many people which is something Christopher struggles with. He finds it hard and confusing to deal with others emotions and feelings because often people don't always mean what they say and don't feel the way they say they feel. However, even though the trip to london was incredibly difficult for Christopher he does an exceptional job at overcoming his problems, such as when he was unable to get to the train station so he used the spiral theory to figure out how to