A Lovely Tale About a Boy on a Mission : A Review For The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
“The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” is the first of Mark Haddon I have read. It is a seemingly crisp, simple story of a fifteen-year-old boy Christopher who is on a mission to find out who killed his neighbour’s dog, Wellington. The story is narrated by Christopher, who cannot understand what other people’s facial expressions and body language mean. His teacher Siobhan has given him a paper which has drawings of the facial expressions people make when they are happy, sad, angry and annoyed. He cannot understand jokes. He likes maths. He likes to have a logical and calculated approach to everything in life. He is too excited to get his A level in Mathematics and Physics, and go to University outside London (Read more about Asperger’s Syndrome at the back of the book!). The book is way more than a murder mystery. Christopher’s behaviour - clear logic, frustrating screams when someone touched him or he was among too many people, carrying a Swiss Army Knife as a me...