The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time Review

The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time by Mark Haddon talks about a boy, named Christopher Boone, who goes on an adventure finding who killed his neighbor's dog. But little did he know it ties in with some secrets about his parents and friends.

2. For what audience(s) is this book intended, and how can you tell? (In other words, for whom would you recommend this book?)

I think that this book was written for young adult readers that are looking for more of a adventurous and detective story. The story has a plot with in the plot. Christopher finds that someone has killed his neighbors dogs. That ties in with other things that ties in with another things. So once Christopher finds out one thing the domino all fall and he finds the truth about everything.

I can tell that this book is for young adult readers because it has some imagination in it and it also contain curse words. There are also affairs and all those are stuff that are inappropriate to younger readers. There are also some violence in between making it a story that shouldn't be for kids.

3. What are the weaknesses of this book, in your opinion?

I think that this book was confusing in many ways because every other chapter it was talking about something else. The main story is actually much shorter than it really is. The side story that was told every other chapter was about Christopher's lifestyle and his personality. Its not that is it bad it is that its not as important than the actual book and story line itself.

The book itself was some what repetitive because that would explain how Christopher can't talk to people in some ways and say certain things and as you read on the next chapter it would say the same thing but rephrased. One things I really didn't like about the story was how it was separated into the section it was because every other chapter that wasn't talking about the main story had nothing to do with the story itself. The other so called side story was sort of a filler. It only talked about Christopher's personality. I mean it is good that the author is doing that but the author did that throughout the book. Sometimes the author would talk about Sherlock Homes and how Christopher idolizes him.

However the book is no all bad there are some unique difference in this book that other books many ways. The main character Christopher has a goal like to write his own book about his investigation and the author explains in fine detail about his personality. I thought that the author did an excellent job on that and Christopher also ways referred to Sherlock Homes which was basically his idol. Christopher's life is also not that complex to understand in his point of view because he has only a few things in mind throughout the whole entire book. One is to finish his investigation on who killed his neighbor's dog and two is to go into Math A level.

8. Pick a character that interested you and write about them in depth.

Christopher Boone. He is the main character in this story. He finds out that someone has killed his neighbors dog. So he decides to go on an adventure finding out who killed him. He is rather strange because he sets his mood depending on cars. Five red cars equal to a "super good day" and black cars equal to "bad days". On the good days h usually finds out clues because he wants to write about the killer and he is the detective. He also idolizes Sherlock Homes because he is a smart man and a really good detective. However he is different because he looks at large pieces of information and Sherlock looks at one thing to deduce a lot of things.

Christopher also never tells lies but he tells white lies to get pass things he shouldn't do but wants to do. He also doesn't like people touching him without permission. Another critical thing about Christopher is that in the beginning of the story he ALWAYS listens to the rule but by the end of the story he is much more independent and can think for himself more. He is also a lot more courageous because he went all the way to London to see this mom by himself at such a young age and his father set a bad example for him thus making him confuse. At one point in the story he has to do something even if it is wrong so he is rebelling against what is use to believe in like his father. He develop his own mind set to do what ever he need to be finished like finding his mother.