The curious incident of the dog in the night time.
● Christopher John Francis Boone: a 15 years old boy, who has Asperger’s
syndrome. He knows all the countries of the world and their capital cities
and every prime number up to 7,507 (that’s why the chapter numbers are
prime numbers). He lives in Swindon at 36 Randolph Street.
- It’s not a funny book, because he can’t tell jokes because he
doesn't understand them.
- He finds people confusing: people do a lot of talking without using
any words and people often talk using metaphors and he doesn't
understand that.
- He doesn't tell lies, because he can’t lie. If he thinks about
something which didn’t happen he starts thinking about all the
other things which didn’t happen. This is also why he doesn’t like
proper novels, because they are lies about things which didn’t
happen and they make him feel shaky and scared. That’s why
everything he had written is true.
- He feels safe when having things always in a nice order.
- He will become an astronaut, but if he won’t he is going to go to
university and study Mathematics of Physics, or Physics and
Mathematics, because he likes mathematics and physics and he’s
very good at them. Mr Jeavons said that he likes math because it’s
safe.
To be a good astronaut, you have to be intelligent, you have to
understand how machines work and you have to be someone who
would like being on their own in a tiny spacecraft thousands and
thousands miles away from the surface of the earth and not panic
or get claustrophobia of homesick or insane.
- He doesn’t like strangers because he doesn't like people he has
never met before. It takes him a long time to get used to people he
doesn't know. He just watches them until he knows that they are
safe. Then he asks them questions about themselves. Then he
doesn’t mind if he is in the same room as them and doesn't have
to watch them all the time.
- Some of his behavioral problems:
→ not talking to people for a long time
→ not eating or drinking anything for a long time
→ not liking being touched
→ screaming when he’s angry or confused
→ not liking being in really small places with other people
→ smashing things when he’s angry of confused
→ groaning
→ not liking yellow things or brown things and refusing to touch
yellow or brown things. (his favorite color is red and metal color)
- Yellow: custard, bananes (also turn brown), double yellow
lines, yellow fever, yellow flowers (because he gets hay fever
, from flower pollen), sweetcorn (because it comes out in your
poo).
- Brown: dirt, gravy, poo, wood (because people used to make
machines and vehicles out of wood), melissa brown (who is a
girl at school, who is not actually brown, but she tore his big
astronaut painting into 2 pieces and he threw it away
because it looked broken, even after Mrs Peters sellotaped
it together)
→ refusing to use my toothbrush if anyone else has touched it.
→ not eating food if different sorts of food are touching each
other
→ not noticing that people are angry with me
→ not smiling
→ saying things that other people think are rude.
→ doing stupid things
→ hitting other people
→ hating France, because when people are on holiday they don’t
have timetables and he had to get Mother and Father to tell him
every morning exactly what they are going to do that day.
→ driving mother’s car
→ getting cross when someone has moved the furniture
- His favourite book is The Hound of the Baskervilles, because it’s a
detective story which means that there are clues and Red
Herrings. He also likes this book, because he likes Sherlock
Holmes and he thinks if he were a proper detective he is the kind
of detective Christopher would be. But he doesn’t like Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle who is the author, because he wasn’t Sherlock
Holmes and he believed in the supernatural.
- His memory is like a film. That’s why he is really good at
remembering things. When people ask him to remember
something, he can simply press rewind and fast forward and
pause like on a video recorder. And this is how he recognises
someone if he doesn’t know who they are. He sees what they are
wearing, or if they have a walking stick, or funny hair he does a
search through his memories to see if he has met them before.
- He doesn’t like it when people grab him and he doesn’t like being
surprised either.
- He went with his father to Twycross Zoo. His favourite animals
were: Randyman (the oldest Red-Faced Black Spider Monkey) →
he’s 44 years old which is the same age as Father. He used to be a
pet on a ship and have a metal band round his stomach.
Miracle and Star (The Patagonian Sealions). Maliku (Orang-Utan).
- He sees everything and that’s why he doesn’t like new places.
- He likes timetables because he likes to know when everything is
going to happen. And also they make sure you don’t get lost in
time.
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