When i started reading the story i thought it was going to be just about a child who is trying to solve a murder of a neighbourhood dog. It didn't take me long to realise this was not just any ordinary child and that this neighbourhood was full of secrets. There is a distinct point in the story where i believe the story goes from solving the murder to solving Chris's life. I believe it is when Chris finds the letters from his mother that the murder of the dog is no longer important. It was just fate that the dog had to be murdered for Chris to write about it in a book, for Ed to take away Chris's book and for Chris to go looking around his fathers things to find his book and to come across the letters from his mother. I believe it is fate that brought Chris and his mother back together.

This story is my favourite story i have ever read up to date. It's difficult for me to find a book where i can really get attached to characters and worry about what might happen to them next. As soon as i started reading the story i felt like i knew Christopher personally, i felt i knew everything about him. When Chris ran away from home to go find his mother i was interested on how he would be able to cope with being in a new environment alone. Chris was not used to the people around him not knowing that he was different than most children his age so there reactions to his behaviour's were rude and intimidating to him. I believe we take simple tasks for granted, reading this story really made me realise how lucky i am to not have as many challenges as someone like Chris would have.

There are many questions that can be asked about all of the characters from this story, but i think the most controversial one would be "Is Ed a good father to Chris?". Ed is put in a very difficult situation, raising a child with a syndrome like Aspergers is probably the most challenging obstacle to face as a parent, and Ed has to do it alone. Although it seems like Ed betrayed Christopher by telling him that his mother had passed away, his situation is complicated and explaining to Christopher that his mother had left them for another man could be very confusing to someone with Aspergers. I think that Ed did betray Christopher by not telling him the truth. Although his reaction to his mother leaving for another man is unpredictable he deserves to know the truth. Chris should have had the option whether he would want to stay in contact with his mother or not, this was not a decision that Ed should have made for him. I believe that Chris will never be able to fully trust his father which is extremely important. Trust will always be an issue in there relationship.

                                                                 

           The curious incident of the dog in the night-time is a touching story about a fifteen year old boy named Christopher John Frances Boone. As soon as I started the book, I knew Christopher was different than most children his age. He knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057, and detests the color yellow.
           Not long after reading that Christopher has asspergers, I found out that Christophers mother had passed away, but something was strange about the way her passing was written. Christophers father did not let him visit her in the hospital when she was sick, he simply told Christopher to write letters to her and that he would bring them when he would go visit her. Christopher didnt even know the reason for his mothers death, he assumed she had just had a heart attack, but she was very healthy and in shape. I knew there was more to her death, I even thought she might have still been alive.