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

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Wellington’s Surprising Impact Imagine this. What if Christopher’s dad, Ed Boone, had never killed Wellington in the first place? Everything in this book would have changed. In the book, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”, the author Mark Haddon, Haddon talks of the story about a 15 year old boy named Christopher who has autism. Christopher is a very smart teen, except has tons of communication issues. Christopher is very sensitive to contact, and has a determined attitude. The book starts out with Christopher finding his neighbors dead dog, Wellington, with a garden fork stabbing him. It turns out that Christopher’s father had killed the dog in the end, so that the dog’s owner, Mrs. Shears, would take care of Christopher instead of Wellington. My theory is that if Ed hadn’t killed Wellington, then the whole storyline would have changed. There are many places in the book that show compelling evidence that support my theory. …show more content…
He did this not because he didn’t like being questioned, but because he does not like physical contact. The policeman touched Christopher to put him in handcuffs, which triggered Christopher’s instinct to attack whoever touches him in the wrong way. He wouldn’t have got into trouble with the police, and become a determined detective to find the murderer of Wellington. When Christopher says, “I am going to find out who killed Wellington.”(Haddon 20) his father pleaded him no, but we all could tell that Christopher was determined when he kept talking about Wellington to his father. I think Haddon had done this in the book, because he wanted the readers to see that Christopher’s character shows determination and