The curious incident of the dog in the night-time

For me it’s a very strange way how the took is written. The sentences are short and its structure very simple. I think that using simple sentences Christopher tries to communicate and order his own world. Harder, the writer tells the story with a delicate sense of humour and even with tenderness making us see and understand Christopher’s problems. All Christopher’s conversations, feelings, experiences and events are explained from his own point of view, so the reader can easily enter to the Christopher’s private world ant try to deal how difficult is living in this world.

The story starts with a simple event, the killing of a dog, but it’s only an excuse to develop a more rich and complicated plot. Christopher ends the novel being a much mature child than he was when the story began.

In my opinion the book depicts perfectly the way people with Christopher’s illness, a kind of autism (Spargle) act. For example, Christopher’s obsession with tidiness, with mathematics, his insensitiveness regarding to feelings in other people, even with his father.

I can’t imagine how difficult it must be for parents to cake care of children with this problem.