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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time	comment	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a 2003 mystery novel by Mark Haddon. It is about young Christopher John Francis Boone, who knows all the countries of the world and their capital cities and all the prime numbers up to 7,057, but has almost no comprehension of human emotion.One late night (exactly 7 minutes after midnight), he finds his neighbour's dog killed by a garden fork, leading him into an investigation that becomes about more than just a dead dog, but about the real world told through the eyes of an autistic 15-year-old with high support needs, right down to the unnecessary details.Adapted into a play which premiered in London in 2012 and debuted on Broadway in 2014. Similar to the book, which Christopher himself has written in-universe as a Mystery Writer Detective, he is also the author of his own play.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_135c6de7	comment	Cannot Tell a Joke: Christopher doesn't understand humour very well because he is so Literal-Minded.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Christopher goes nearly catatonic when he finds out his father was the one who killed Wellington, and hid from him that his mother is not dead but merely abandoned them.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_146f4e0	comment	Blind Without 'Em: Only mentioned in passing but Siobhan, the narrator Christopher's favourite teacher, wears glasses thick enough to induce headaches when 20/20 people wear them. Also counts as an example of Glasses Curiosity.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Christopher often refers to Detective Fiction tropes as a model for how he should investigate the crime.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Despite his Photographic Memory. May be related to Innocent Inaccurate.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_1f268108	comment	Mystery Writer Detective: Christopher is writing his book as he works on the mystery of who killed Wellington.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_20989d05	comment	Parents as People: To the point where it might as well be called "parents as people, the book". Christopher's father tries really hard to raise his son despite his disorder not making it easy on top of having his wife leaving with another man and he is the dutiful one.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Christopher is a fan of detective novels. The difference is that he isn't living inside a detective novel.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_22f06704	comment	Schedule Fanatic: Christopher. He plans his daily routine down to the minute and gets upset when he isn't sure what time it is.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_259d5879	comment	Although this does raise the question of how he's able to watch The Blue Planet, which wasn't broadcast until 2001.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_27690f66	comment	Literary Allusion Title: Silver Blaze, a Sherlock Holmes mystery (full quote at Fair-Play Whodunnit).
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_295087bf	comment	Non-Indicative Name: Christopher knows he was named after the Gentle Giant saint who purportedly carried the young Jesus across a river (which is literally what "Christopher" means: it's the Greek for "Christ's bearer"â€”but that means it was obviously not the said saint's name before he carried Jesus, if that even really happened), and that his parents picked the name for its general association with kindness and helpfulness, but Christopher himself doesn't feel his name describes him at all, at least in that "kind and helpful" isn't quite what come to mind when he is spoken of.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_2b34de10	comment	Conversational Troping: Christopher often muses about what we would recognize as tropes to himself, and why they're unrealistic. In one chapter he notes how silly the idea of Humanoid Aliens is, and instead thinks they would be more likely to be totally different. In another, he notices some people dressed as Horny Vikings and comments on how anachronistic their clothing is.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_2e5e04c0	comment	Must Make Amends: Both of Christopher's parents, for varying reasons. Ed lied about his wife's death and killed an innocent dog that Christopher liked, all because he was angry at the dog's owner and his life situation, and Judy left her son to pursue an affair and thought letters were a form of maternal care. By the end of the book Ed has bought a new puppy for Christopher, and Judy has taken in Christopher after Mr. Shears leaves her.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_30adeff3	comment	Defective Detective: Christopher, naturally, given his autism (or at least a similar disorder).
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_31c5e7fb	comment	Starfish Aliens: Discussed when Christopher sees a giant rain cloud that he muses could very well be an alien spaceshipâ€”since in Real Life there's no reason they have to look humanoid or even like recognisable robots or animals, the way they're depicted in most sci-fi media.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_31e2ad94	comment	Kid Detective: What Christopher wishes to become. (Besides becoming an astronaut.)
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_35a858b3	comment	Christopher's father, to the point where some of his lines resemble a Cluster F-Bomb.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_35e6593b	comment	Accidental Passenger: When Christopher catches the train to London, a policeman who had spoken to him earlier suddenly boards the train to try to persuade him not to travel. Unfortunately, the train doors then close, and the policeman is forced to travel to the next stop. Meanwhile, Christopher hides in the train, and makes it to London.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_38291355	comment	Does Not Know His Own Strength: Christopher is very strong and doesn't realise he has to be careful at times.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: Christopher says that Wellington's killer must have either wanted to hurt the dog or hurt Mrs. Shears, and according to statistics someone who kills animals will start on people next. While Ed doesn't kill anyone else after hurting Wellington, Christopher is right on suspecting that Ed did it to hurt Mrs. Shears, and is horrified when he learns. The police also keep Ed from seeing Christopher in London when the latter makes it to his mother's place after they learn what happened.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: At the beginning, a policeman grabs Christopher by the arm and Christopher (due to how he Hates Being Touched) hits him, and he gets promptly arrested for assault. He gets a warning when the police sergeant finds out that he has a disability, and Christopher next time warns a policeman at the train station to not touch him because he doesn't want to get arrested again. When Christopher finds out that Ed killed Wellington, he is terrified because he feels he can't trust his father any more because of how he lied about not only that but the fact that he told Christopher his mother was dead, which she wasn't. And after learning that his own father is capable of murder, Christopher is justifiably afraid that his dad could easily kill him next, so that's why he decides to run away to his mother's apartment. When Judy finds out that Ed told Christopher she was dead, she is furious and treats him to a What the Hell, Hero?. Also works the other way, as Ed tells Judy that writing letters to Christopher is no substitute for actually looking after him after she walked out on them both. Christopher also believes that Wellington's killer should go to jail. It turns out that, thanks to the law, his father will only get punished if Mrs. Shears presses charges, and she would rather not do so. Killing a person would mean jail time, but a dog matters less.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: Christopher cannot identify this in other people. When, for example, his father finds the book he's been working on, and realises he went out of his way to continue investigating Wellington's death, Christopher can't tell at first that his father is angry at him because Ed questions him about this in a low, even tone.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Christopher, although you can't really blame him. Also, Christopher's parents.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: In the play, Christopher wanted to explain his favourite mathematical equation. Siobhan tells him to explain after the play if people are interested. In the book, this is explained in an appendix.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_49b1fe0	type	Beige Prose
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_49b1fe0	comment	Beige Prose: Christopher writes in a rather stilted and matter-of-fact tone. His sentences follow a strict "this happened, and that happened" pattern. Most of his paragraphs begin with "And" or "Then". He usually only uses long sentences when digressing from the plot to discuss scientific concepts or his personal interests (or his autism).
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "I killed Wellington, Christopher."
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_4fff0dfe	comment	Sarcasm-Blind: Christopher, as a consequence of his autism. He takes sarcasm from others at face value, particularly when he can't recognise the emotions accompanying it (usually anger or irritation). Take for instance his conversation with an irritable store clerk when buying a map of London:
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: To some, Christopher's conviction that his father should go to jail for killing the dog, Wellington seems like this, but for Christopher himself, who understands and empathizes with dogs more than human beings, this is entirely justified. note However, in the United Kingdom, where the story takes place, an animal abuse criminal database is being created, and you can get prosecuted for animal cruelty. Leaving your autistic son because you decide you can't cope with his idiosyncracies also seems somewhat over the top, though it wasn't really meant as retribution. Turned out to be what the crime was about, Christopher's dad was still suffering that his wife ran with another man, leaving him alone to raise their autistic son, when the neighbour, whose husband ran off with his wife, turned down his desire to start a family again he killed Wellington because the woman seemed to care more about the dog than him and his son.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_525df529	type	Not Using the "Z" Word
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_525df529	comment	Not Using the A Word: Christopher is never identified as being anywhere on the autistic spectrum in the book. Haddon himself maintains that he wrote the character as an "outsider" more than anything else.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_54367e5d	type	Mathematician's Answer
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_54367e5d	comment	Mathematician's Answer: One of the few jokes Christopher finds funny is based on this concept. Three academics riding a train together in Scotland remark upon a brown cow they see through the window:
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: And how. Averted in the play, where a policeman helps Christopher buy a ticket to London before learning he's a runaway.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: The play invokes and justifies this, as Siobhan created the play based on Christopher's notebook chronicling his investigation, and she serves as a bridge to explain Christopher's thought process. Several people represent the multiple side characters like the policemen or Mrs. Shears, Judy and Christopher move back to Swindon so he can take his A levels, and Mr. Shears at first appears reasonable about Christopher staying with them.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_5db59a03	comment	Brown Note: Christopher hates the colours yellow and brown, especially yellow. He also despises loud noises, which cause him to scream and cover his ears.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_5e7163c9	comment	Alternative Character Interpretation: In-universe. To most people in the town and the law, killing Wellington would be a pretty disgusting Kick the Dog (no pun intended) moment but not quite the Moral Event Horizon; in fact, Judy tells Christopher that unless Mrs. Shears presses charges, his father won't go to jail. To Christopher, it is as serious as killing a human being and his father is a murderer and Christopher must escape from the house because his father could kill anyone, including him.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_5f146203	type	Dissonant Serenity
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_5f146203	comment	Dissonant Serenity: While some real autistics tune out or even blackout when overloaded or having a meltdown/shutdown, Christopher calmly narrates his. Possibly averted in that he is writing a book, and may be describing what others have told him about what he does.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_5fdf73bc	type	Photographic Memory
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_5fdf73bc	comment	Photographic Memory: Or, more precisely, Cinematographic Memory â€” Christopher compares his memory to a video reel and frequently uses video similes (not metaphors) to illustrate his memory functions. If he blacks out at one point, he speaks of having his memory-tape erased; if he tries to recall something, he simply "rewinds" or "searches" through his mental archives to find relevant information (including how to respond to people having Convulsive Seizures). He also speaks of playing and pausing previous memories like video clips in his head. Most importantly, due to his inability to filter sensory information normally, he can recall practically every visual detail of any given scene, even going years back. When, for instance, Christopher revisits a farmland scene with a few cows, he remembers the number of cows, their skin patterns, the shape of the field, the details of a nearby village, the different kinds of litter at his feet, and so on.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_5ff126b7	type	Troubled Fetal Position
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_5ff126b7	comment	Troubled Fetal Position: Christopher does this when he is upset or overwhelmed.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_5ff56a1f	type	Long List
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_5ff56a1f	comment	Long List: Christopher makes various lists, such as some of his behavioural problems; and when he is arrested, he lists everything in his pockets, down to the values of the individual coins.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_60a3f0ba	type	Monty Hall Problem
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_60a3f0ba	comment	Monty Hall Problem: Christopher explains the Monty Hall problem to the reader, using a tree diagram◊ to illustrate all the different ways it can play out and the odds of each possible outcome.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_61321e1	type	Unusual Chapter Numbers
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_61321e1	comment	Unusual Chapter Numbers: The chapter numbers are all prime numbers, which Christopher has a love for.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: Christopher's mother flat-out admits this in a letter to him. She threw tantrums when he refused to eat food and often hit him simply because she didn't know how to handle his behavioural quirks. Christopher's dad can get angry a lot.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_63cad64b	type	Threatening Shark
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_63cad64b	comment	Threatening Shark: Discussed by Christopher. He is absolutely terrified of sharks and remembers a time when he started screaming at the beach thinking his mother had been eaten by one (when in fact she was just swimming under the surface).
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_643618e5	comment	Replacement Goldfish: As part of his Must Make Amends, Ed buys a new puppy for Christopher, as a peace offering after revealing he killed Wellington. Although technically the dog is also meant to replace Toby, Christopher's pet rat, who died of old age (rats only live to around two to three years).
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Christopher is raised by his father because his mother has died. Or so he's been told. She is actually living elsewhere.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_6a3c49f	type	Direct Line to the Author
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_6a3c49f	comment	Direct Line to the Author: In-universe, Christopher is the author of the book.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: It outrages Christopher that after he finds out that his father killed Wellington, he won't even get punished for it because the police will only do it if Mrs. Shears presses charges. Dogs tend to be innocent where the affairs of humans are involved, and that Wellington had nothing to do with Ed and Judy's maternal problems or the tribulations of raising an autistic child. (Though Christopher's father, during The Reveal, admits that it was a purely impulsive action happening at the height of his anger and frustration, and he didn't actually blame Wellington) Judy calls out Ed for telling Christopher she was dead, but he counteracts that writing letters is no substitute for parental care.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_6b2b3b59	comment	It outrages Christopher that after he finds out that his father killed Wellington, he won't even get punished for it because the police will only do it if Mrs. Shears presses charges. Dogs tend to be innocent where the affairs of humans are involved, and that Wellington had nothing to do with Ed and Judy's maternal problems or the tribulations of raising an autistic child. (Though Christopher's father, during The Reveal, admits that it was a purely impulsive action happening at the height of his anger and frustration, and he didn't actually blame Wellington)
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_720e28a4	type	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_720e28a4	comment	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Christopher says his favorite subjects are mathematics, physics and mathematical physics.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_72fb1638	type	Outgrowing the Childish Name
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_72fb1638	comment	Outgrowing the Childish Name: Inverted; Christopher used to refer to his parents as Mummy and Daddy, but as a teenager he calls them Mother and Father.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_756dbd0b	type	Hard on Soft Science
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_756dbd0b	comment	Hard on Soft Science: Despite Christopher having almost No Sense of Humour, he does enjoy one joke about inductive reasoning, because it depicts a mathematician showing up as an economist, and as he puts it, "economists aren't real scientists".
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_7786a6f1	type	Zeroth Law Rebellion
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_7786a6f1	comment	Zeroth Law Rebellion: Christopher hates breaking promises and when others lie to him, so he tries to keep all his promises and never lie. However, when his father makes him promise to stop investigating the murder of Wellington, Christopher breaks the promise down into its five component parts and continues the investigation by asking about unrelated but relevant things. When his dad finds out, he's not happy.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_7a163538	type	Brooklyn Rage
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_7a163538	comment	Brooklyn Rage: The slightly watered-down London version. Several of the people Christopher meets in London sound particularly angry or at least high-strungâ€”quite a few of them are given to dropping Cluster F-Bombs and Precision F-Strikesâ€”although that might just be the typical rush-hour rudeness of any major metropolis. Plus, none of them would be expected to know how to deal with his behavioural issues.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_7c7ee100	type	Cannot Tell a Lie
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_7c7ee100	comment	Cannot Tell a Lie: Christopher refuses to outright lie, ever (though over the course of the story he becomes more comfortable telling white lies).
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_7fbe9a30	type	Freak Out
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_7fbe9a30	comment	Freak Out: Christopher gets overwhelmed easily by loud noises, physical contact and bright lights.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_82a64c4b	type	Adaptational Nice Guy
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_82a64c4b	comment	Adaptational Nice Guy: In the play, Mr. Shears at first makes an effort to welcome Christopher into his life before getting abusive and calling him spoiled, which leads to Judy kicking Mr. Shears out of their flat.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_82b78473	type	Solar-Powered Magnifying Glass
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_82b78473	comment	Solar-Powered Magnifying Glass When in the holding cell at the police station (for assaulting a cop because he was overstimulated by being touched), Christopher mulls possibly using his glasses to start a solar fire Ã la Lord of the Flies (which, again, got wrong because it only works for farsighted glasses, so Chris' glasses would have to be farsighted too) and escape by being removed from the cell.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_84249fbc	type	Nerd Glasses
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_84249fbc	comment	Nerd Glasses: Christopher mentions wearing glasses a few times. He rarely seems to wear them, thoughâ€”the only major mention of them is at the start of the novel, where he muses about possibly using them to start a solar fire Ã la Lord of the Flies and escape from the holding cell at the police station. (Which would only work if he was farsighted, which Lord of the Flies infamously got wrong.) Christopher also mentions that Siobhan wears green plastic glasses with very thick lenses that give others headaches.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_8658cd14	type	Agent Scully
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_8658cd14	comment	Agent Scully: Personality-wise, Christopher fits this; he is fairly contemptuous of people who believe in the supernaturalâ€”including Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who joined a Spiritualist society so he could try to communicate with his dead son.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Of the Kid Detective genre of books. It shows what kind of person would be naive enough to go out of their way to search for clues about a 'murder' in a world dictated by reality, all for the sake of wanting to being a detective. In fact, the 'investigation' comes to a screeching halt less than halfway through the story because clues don't just fall into your lap.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: Subverted with Christopher's mother. Played straight with Wellington.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_8f37640a	type	Lies to Children
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_8f37640a	comment	Lies to Children: So, Ed, how's that whole pretending-your-wife-is-dead thing working out for your kid, eh?
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_8fd7af48	type	Sir Swears-a-Lot
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_8fd7af48	comment	Sir Swears-a-Lot: Christopher's father, to the point where some of his lines resemble a Cluster F-Bomb. Also applies for many of the people who talk to him, particularly in London.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Judy left Christopher and Ed to pursue her affair with Mr. Shears. When Christopher shows up years later, Mr. Shears leaves Judy.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_97914ed	type	Idiot Savant
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_97914ed	comment	Idiot Savant: Christopher is a classic example of the "autistic savant" trope: brilliant at math, poor at communicating, a Creature of Habit.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_9922bb09	type	Subways Suck
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_9922bb09	comment	Subways Suck: Christopher is overwhelmed by sensory overload in The London Underground: the noises, the advertisements, and especially the people. At one point he goes down onto the Underground tracks to rescue his rat Toby even as the train is bearing down on them both.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_9b76b81	type	Evolutionary Levels
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_9b76b81	comment	Evolutionary Levels: Christopher ponders this trope at one point and dismisses it, saying that humans aren't the pinnacle of evolution but just one successful species out of many that have existed, and will probably go extinct in the future and be replaced by something else.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Ed tells Christopher to stop investigating the mystery of who killed Wellington, and not to mention Mr. Shears's name in his house, citing him as evil. Why? Because Ed is the one who killed Wellington, and Judy left Ed to pursue an affair with Mr. Shears, and Ed doesn't want Christopher to find out about either event. Of course, he eventually does.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_9e08a5c2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_9e08a5c2	comment	What Measure Is A Nonhuman: Played for Drama. Christopher is aggrieved to find out that the person who killed Wellington won't go to jail because a dog doesn't matter as much in the eyes of the law as a person would; killing a dog intentionally is only a "misdemeanor," which killing a person intentionally would be "murder". It's hard not to see Christopher's perspective considering Wellington was innocent in the fight between Ed and Mrs. Shears.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_a0edf122	type	Good with Numbers
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_a0edf122	comment	Good with Numbers: By and large, Christopher's saving grace. So much so that: He discusses several math problems in his book, including the Monty Hall problem; People ask him challenging mathematical operations for fun (which must seem terribly easy to him); and He even includes the proof of his favourite problem on his A-level exams in an appendix to the book he's writing.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Ed after Christopher successfully makes it to his mother's house, and all his actions come back to haunt him. Also much earlier when he slaps Christopher after his son hit him.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_a340a474	type	CozyCatastrophe
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_a340a474	comment	Cozy Catastrophe: One of Christopher's favorite dreams is him getting to do whatever he wants after a viral outbreak has killed most of the human race.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_a6ff7243	type	Hates Being Touched
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_a6ff7243	comment	At the beginning, a policeman grabs Christopher by the arm and Christopher (due to how he Hates Being Touched) hits him, and he gets promptly arrested for assault. He gets a warning when the police sergeant finds out that he has a disability, and Christopher next time warns a policeman at the train station to not touch him because he doesn't want to get arrested again.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_a8cbf649	type	I Should Write a Book About This
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_a8cbf649	comment	I Should Write a Book About This: The whole novel is self-referential; Siobhan encourages Christopher to write down his experiences in a bookâ€”i.e., what the reader is currently reading. He even writes down episodes about having to find earlier drafts of his yet-unfinished book because his father confiscated it from him.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: Or just plain cruel, but some are in fact quite helpful, for example the two at the subway who help him when he rests on the train tracks, the elderly neighbor who tries to comfort him, his teacher for being not just his teacher but also a mentor, and his parents at times.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Anti-Villain in this case: Ed confiscating Christopher's notebook of his investigation leads to Chris finding his mother's letters while searching for his book, which in turn leads to him learning that his mother is alive and that Ed lied about her death. Ed then makes matters worse by confessing that he killed Wellington, which is The Last Straw for Christopher, who runs away to find his mother.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Ed, upon realising that Christopher has read the letters from his mother and knows she is still alive.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_ad641426	type	Trademark Favorite Food
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_ad641426	comment	Trademark Favorite Food: Christopher loves strawberry milkshakes and mentions them several times in the book. He's also fond of the Indian food Gobi Aloo Saag, though as it is yellow he has to put red food coloring in it before eating. (One wonders how he tried it in the first placeâ€¦ possibly his parents surprised him by feeding it to him with his eyes shut?)
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Christopher claims to have no sense of humour but is given to moments of dry, sardonic wit, an example being: "I think dogs are more interesting than some people. Steve, who goes to my school for instance, needs help to eat his food and could not even fetch a stick. Siobhan tells me not to say this to Steve's mother." Though considering how Literal-Minded he is, an Alternate Character Interpretation of this is that he is The Comically Serious. He might genuinely not understand the humor in that, and what he says is only coincidentally funny.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: Christopher abhors lies and gives great priority order, truth and promises, accentuated by his Literal-Minded nature. He will never lie and avoid being untrue even on a speculative level, and if he promises to do something he will do it. However, he is not above telling "white lies" (that is, half truths that are entirely factual but omit facts) when he knows someone will react badly to the truth - reasoning that most statements are white lies from a literal standpoint - and he repeatedly finds loopholes in the promises he makes to pursue other things he wants to do. Part of it is him not regarding the spirit of promises as much as the exact order, but there are also instances where he does understand the spirit but persists as an acts of determination.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_b1e8a3b3	type	Coming of Age Story
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_b1e8a3b3	comment	Coming of Age Story: A fairly unconventional one, sure, but Christopher does do quite a bit of growing upâ€”most notably by going to London by himself, overcoming his fears of the very unfamiliar and unpredictable outside world, and it's all the more amazing considering his autistic condition. He matter-of-factly but proudly ends his book by reiterating his dream to go to university and become a scientist:
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Roger Shears is hardly a shining example of family values, what with the whole "leaving his wife to run off with a married woman" thing, but even he seems pretty disgusted when he hears what happened to Wellington. Especially when he learns who did the deed.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_b8e38fc5	type	Metaphorically True
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_b8e38fc5	comment	Metaphorically True: Christopher's father on Christopher's mother:
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_b9c3de84	comment	Bumbling Dad: Christopher's dad isn't always the best father, but he at least tries to own up to his mistakes and it's clear he loves his son very much.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Christopher, his mother, and Mr. and Mrs. Shears (downplayed in that Mrs. Shears just doesn't want to help Christopher to the point of being his mom, and in Christopher's own case one can't really blame him).
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_bd0d6395	type	No Social Skills
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_bd0d6395	comment	No Social Skills: Christopher. To the point he threatens the people that saved him because they touched him and he punches a policeman for the same reason.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_bd79d896	type	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_bd79d896	comment	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: Sort of; namely, Murder of the dog Wellington â†’ "Fraud", in the form of Ed lying to Christopher that Judy died, by hiding her letters to him. The former's only indirectly related to the latter, however, from Christopher's point of view, killing a dog is in no way a minor crime.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_bfc2ec8a	type	That Makes Me Feel Angry
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_bfc2ec8a	comment	That Makes Me Feel Angry: Christopher states how he feels not with words, but with simple drawings of faces.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_c02f148d	type	Both Sides Have a Point
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_c02f148d	comment	Both Sides Have a Point: Judy and Ed's massive argument regarding Christopher when Ed catches up to him in London: Judy is furious that Ed told Christopher she was dead and decided to just write her out of his life completely. Ed is furious that Judy left him and Christopher to pursue an affair with Mr. Shears, and points out that writing letters to Christopher is no good because it can't compare to actually being there for Christopher and looking after him.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_c4766f4d	type	Known by the Postal Address
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_c4766f4d	comment	Known by the Postal Address: When Christopher is making an epic journey to his mother's house in London, he refers to it by the full address including the postcode every time he mentions it, which is justified because of his Asperger's syndrome.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Christopher is a big fan of Science Fiction and mentions several franchises he likes, including Star Trek, Star Wars, Doctor Who, Blake's 7 and Blade Runner. He also talks about Sherlock Holmes at length, who is his chief inspiration as a Kid Detective, in fact the title is a line from "Silver Blaze" (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes). Although he claims to hate what he terms "proper novels" â€” i.e., any other fiction besides sci-fi and murder mysteries â€” because "proper novels" tell stories that never happened, making them technically lies. He especially disdains supernatural fiction, even though one could argue that they are just as speculative as sci-fi. Christopher also plays a lot of Minesweeper, sometimes for hours on end.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: Subverted with Christopher's parents. We don't find out the names of his father or mother until well into the book (Ed and Judy). In universe too, when people ask him who his parents are (expecting a name) he only answers "Mother" or "Father."
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: Christopher. Justified because of his autism.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_d05cf3f	type	Footnote Fever
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_d05cf3f	comment	Footnote Fever: In-universe. Nearly every other chapter in Christopher's journal is some digression about scientific or mathematical facts, or notes on his mental condition and personal interests, including generous helpings of explanatory footnotes. In the play, one of these footnotes is presented after the curtain call.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_d2cf1dce	type	Hyper-Awareness
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_d2cf1dce	comment	Hyper-Awareness: The reason Christopher says he doesn't like new places or people: he has no filters and can't help but notice every little detail about the environment around him, down to the smell of a policeman's aftershave and the vents in his teacher's shoes. It doesn't help that he has a self-described Photographic Memory.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_d39e327f	comment	When Judy finds out that Ed told Christopher she was dead, she is furious and treats him to a What the Hell, Hero?. Also works the other way, as Ed tells Judy that writing letters to Christopher is no substitute for actually looking after him after she walked out on them both.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Or at least inconsistent in his statements. Christopher frequently derides normal people for being illogical, although much of what he does is equally illogical. For example, he feels that it is stupid that some people randomly have bad days. He has a much more logical reason for deciding a day is bad - seeing three yellow cars on the way to school. He maintains a strong disdain for supernatural tales, which he considers a whole big pack of liesâ€”but he enjoys science fiction and mystery novels, which also consist of fictional scenarios that happen to involve science in them. (And even they can't be counted on to be accurate either, largely due to Rule of Cool and Science Marches On.)
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: The main reason why Christopher's mother left him is that she felt unable to cope with an autistic child.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: Christopher demonstrates how to find out which numbers are prime numbers, by presenting a table of numbers from one to 49 and removing all the numbers that are multiples of 2, 3, 4, and and so on. The result is a table of only prime numbers, with all composite (non-prime) numbers missing. However, the number 1 has also been removed. While 1 is not a prime number, this is not explained. The actual reason is that the number 1 has one positive divisor in itself, while all prime numbers have two. Somehow, Christopher knows that the definition of prime numbers excludes 1, yet his reasoning contradicts the fact.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_dcf1e0e2	type	Punch a Wall
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_dcf1e0e2	comment	Punch a Wall: Ed punches a hole in a fence when Christopher won't talk to him.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_dcf83f95	type	Number Obsession
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_dcf83f95	comment	Number Obsession: Christopher knows all the prime numbers up to 7,057. He is so obsessed with maths, he even uses prime numbers instead of conventional chapter numbers.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_dfe687c9	type	Alone with the Psycho
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_dfe687c9	comment	Alone with the Psycho: An unusual example, but this technically applies to the moment when Christopher's father catches him reading his still-living mother's letters, and due to having betrayed Christopher's trust, is forced to confess that he murdered Wellington.note Certainly his father must seem even more of a psycho from Christopher's point of view, given that he both lied about his mother's death and killed a dog, especially since Christopher relates better to dogs than to most people.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_e2a41c3b	type	Literal-Minded
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_e2a41c3b	comment	Literal-Minded: The reason Christopher doesn't understand metaphors and therefore considers them lies. For example: the common saying "the apple of one's eye" baffles him because he can't see how appreciating someone has anything to do with having an apple literally stuck in one's eye (which to him probably counts as an Eye Scream).
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_e3048d1b	type	Amateur Sleuth
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_e3048d1b	comment	Amateur Sleuth: Christopher, who very much idolises the Great Detective Sherlock Holmes.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_e598d4ac	type	Innocent Inaccurate
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_e598d4ac	comment	Innocent Inaccurate: Christopher.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_e8038166	type	Obsessively Organized
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_e8038166	comment	Obsessively Organized: Christopher gets very upset when anything in his house is changed and goes as far as measuring where the furniture is so he can put it back in the right places after his mother vacuums. He likes Mrs. Shears because she's very neat and organizes everything in the kitchen.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: When Christopher's father admonishes him to drop the investigation into Wellington's murder, Christopher carefully picks apart his father's words and deduces that, literally speaking, Ed has not expressly forbidden him from talking to his neighbour Mrs Alexander, although Christopher clearly isn't supposed to be asking her about the murder. His father even points out he still disobeyed, as he did also say to stop interrogating people (although he used a more colorful version but so did he when he asked him to stop "asking about who killed that bloody dog") which makes Christopher so scared he has problem remembering what happened.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Jerkass: Mr. Shears cheats on his wife with a married woman and then breaks up with said married woman days after her son arrives. His wife is no better, being highly jealous and confrontational. Judy and Ed are just as bad; Ed has serious anger issues and killed Wellington, and Judy abandoned both her husband and her son., but to a fault, they utmost do care about their son and try to reconcile with him.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_ed81daa2	comment	Mockstery Tale: The book starts with the protagonist's discovery of a dog speared with a garden fork. The novel appears to take the direction of an amateur sleuth trying to unravel the mystery, but soon devolves into said sleuth talking about his own life, eventually leading to a revelation that spurs him to leave the city in search of his mother.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_edaedf90	type	Vomit Discretion Shot
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_edaedf90	comment	Vomit Discretion Shot: From Christopher's own point of view, once he realises his mother's still alive from reading her letters. He obviously doesn't write about throwing up in his book, primarily because he was in the middle of a Heroic BSoD at the time and his memory blacked outâ€”"like a bit of the tape had been erased," in his own words.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: Christopher once punched a girl who was bullying him so hard that he knocked her out and she had to be taken to hospital with concussion.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_fc151e9d	comment	Department of Redundancy Department: When adults don't understand what he's saying, Christopher tends to just repeat himself word for word.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_fec81854	comment	Sensory Overload: Christopher is overwhelmed by sensory overload in The London Underground: the noises, the advertisements, and especially the people.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Ed takes Christopher to the zoo on the weekend to apologize for hitting him in anger. (No pun intended to the actual dogs in the story.) Involves an actual dog. After Christopher's pet rat Toby dies, Ed, desperately wanting to make things up to Christopher after everything that has happened, gets him a present, a Golden Retriever puppy, and says that Christopher can name him..
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