Summer Reading Project/Book

In the book, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, the main character Christopher, a 15 year old boy with severe Autism, struggles with the world around him. In the beginning of the story Christopher is bothered by little things that most people seem to ignore. For example, he hates it when people touch him, he doesn't like being alone in rooms with people he doesn't know, and he doesn't like talking to strangers. As the story goes on Christopher is faced with issues with his father and himself such as, lies, conflict, that all lead to the run-away of Christopher. He believes he is forced to leave his house on a quest to find his mother (his dad lied about her leaving them). It is so important for him to find his mother he tries to ignore the fact that he hates crammed in places. He overcomes the hatred for it and makes it the whole way without making a huge deal of it. He finds his mother and then she realizes Christopher is more important than anyone else, so she goes back to Swindon, where Christopher's father lives and buys a house there. Christopher slowly begins to trust his father again by doing little by little. Christopher at the end of the story even believes that he is a new person. He believes he can do anything due to all of the accomplishments he made. He seems to be less stressed by his surroundings, and can do a lot of new things.

This article is great for my article because it hits the spots that I missed, due to summing it up. It tells more about the whole crime-scene in the story whereas I mostly focused on the relationships between characters and how it played a roll in the story. Dog in the Night Time

The video I chose is about a play in London that is about this book. The video is about the actors describing their roles as the characters in the novel.