Analyse af 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time'

Mark Haddon is a British novelist and a poet. He was born in 1962 in Northampton. Haddon educated at uppingham school and Merton College, Oxford, where he studied English. In 2003, Haddon won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and in 2004, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Overall Best First Book for his novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. Now he lives in Oxford with his wife and their two young sons.

Setting

The story takes place in England, primarily in Swindon around 1999.

Characters

There are many people in the story, I have chosen the most important people.

Christopher Boone is the narrator of the story. He is fifteen years old and suffers from autism. Christopher does not understand human emotion, but he is very intelligent and smart, he is very good at math. He wants to become an astronaut. When he get afraid usually in small places he puts his hands over his ears and screams, because he don’t like small places with many people, he love to be alone in a small room because he feels save. He won’t eat anything there is yellow or brown. Christopher lives with his father, but in the end he lives with his mother. His idol is Sherlock Holmes, and he is always thinking about Sherlock Holmes during the mysterious of the dogs dead. Christopher thought that his mother was dead, but he discovered that she was alive and she living in England, and has been writing him letters, but the father has been hiding. Christopher also finds out that it was the father who killed the dog. Christopher decides to live with his mother. Christopher has grown from autism, now he talks with people and he is not “being in his own world”.