The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night

1. Characters

   • family (including Siobhan)
     • Judy Boone
       • cannot handle Christopher
       • believed dead
         • just a seachange
           • Mr Shears you saucy minx
     • Ed Boone
       • anger problems
       • eventual killer
         • this scares Christopher
       • hides letters from mother
     • Siobhan
   • neighbours and friends
     • Mrs Alexander
       • reveals truth behind mother
         • tries to be sneaky
           • christopher doesnt understand
     • Mrs shears
       • thinks Christopher is the killer
     • Wellington (deceased)
       • dog
   • stranger encounters
     • police officers
       • punches one in the face
       • escapes one while trying to escape people

2. narrative techniques

   • illustrations
     • • shows need for structure
     • • used to help explain things
   • digressions
     • learn more about protagonist
       • is very fond of Sherlock Holmes
       • wants to be an astronaut
     • act as interludes to the story
   • language
     • lack of colloquial
     • first person

3. characteristics and mannerisms of Christopher

   • attitude
     • thinks all students from his school are dumb
       • “All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are."
     • likes policeman
     • hates metaphors
       • “Metaphors are lies.”
   • characteristics from autism
     • cannot lie
       • white lies
       • leaving details out
     • intelligence
       • perceptiveness
         • “The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
         • recieves all information
           • can lead to breakdowns
       • prime numbers
         • knows all of them up to 7,507
         • “Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them."
     • remembers everything
     • irrationality
     • anti-social
       • cannot understand social cues
         • “I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.”
     • need for structure
     • strangers scare him
       • grips Swiss Army knife
   • digressions
     • whole chapter
       • chptr. 83 why he wants to be an astronaut
       • chptr. 107 The Hound of the Baskervilles
     • partial
       • chptr. 173 truth of constellations

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