The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time

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The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-Time is structured unlike any other of this epoch. The novel opens with a murder, but not a murder of a human, the murder of a dog, very similar to the narrator’s favorite book The Hound of Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This book shows how one event can change a life and by finding this deceased dog, Christopher unknowingly altered his life and those lives close to him forever. Christopher begins to take on the persona of an investigator throughout the book. He starts searching for clues to find who killed the dog and what their motives are. By pursuing this line of inquiry Christopher finds out an immense amount of information kept secret from him by his father. While investigating the murder it is uncovered that Christopher’s mother, Judy, is not dead like his father had said. In reality his mother ran away with their neighbor Mr. Shears and began a new life in London. His mother wrote to him constantly and the secretive nature of his father causes distress. After the discovery of his mother’s continual existence Christopher’s father quickly becomes the antagonist of the book. From there on out Christopher sees him as a villain …show more content…

After Judy and Mr. Sheers ran away together to London, the lonely Mrs. Shears and Ed Boone tried to spark a secret romance. After Mrs. Shears said that the relationship was not going to work out Mr. Boone found himself extremely angry with her and murdered her dog. Christopher loves dogs for their loyalty so when he finally deduces that his father is the murderer, Christopher is extremely enraged. This causes him to move to London with his mother and leave the father he hated completely alone. It is not until the end of the book that he finally forgives his father after he apologizes and gets him a dog of his own, “Christopher, I would never, ever do anything to hurt you"

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