Sunday, November 14, 2010

The curious incident of the dog in the night-time (Mark Haddon)


Christopher Boone, a fifteen-year-old boy, lives with his father because his mother died 2 years ago. He is very good at maths. He knows every prime number up to 7057 and his way to calm down is to doubling 2's. One day, Wellington, the neighbor's dog, is speared by a garden fork. Christopher decides to find out who killed Wellington in the style of his favorite detective, Sherlock Holmes. During his investigation, he does a lot of things that he has never done before, such as talking to his neighbors. Thanks to this, he finds out the secret about his mother which father has been hiding from him: his mother hasn't died. And father tells Christopher that he is the one who killed Wellington. After all of that, Christopher loses all his trust in his father. He even thinks that his father may kill him. Therefore, he decides not to live with his father anymore...
The way Christopher react with everything is weird. He cannot understand people well. He will definitely scream when someone, even his parents, touches him. He wants everything in his life to be planned. He doesn't like things that he don't know about. He refuses to touch or eat anything that is yellow or brown just because he hates the color. But he knows a lot of different things, some of which I cannot understand.

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