{"id":4768,"date":"2010-10-31T17:22:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T11:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=4768"},"modified":"2020-11-15T14:35:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T09:05:31","slug":"the-curious-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-night-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2010\/10\/31\/the-curious-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-night-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Mark Haddon<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Written from the perspective of Christopher John Francis Boone, a  15-year-old autistic boy, the book begins with Chris deciding to  investigate the mystery of who killed his neighbour&#8217;s dog &#8211; Wellington.  Despite several setbacks, even from his father, who is usually  supportive, Chris continues his dogged pursuit. The rest of the book is a  vivid tale of how Chris methodically goes about solving the mystery,  and the other things his seemingly simple quest throws up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The detailing of Christopher&#8217;s character &#8211; behaviour, his thoughts,  the way his mind works, his likes and dislikes, is extremely well done &#8211;  right from the chapters appearing in the prime number sequence to the  solution of a maths problem in the appendix.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chris&#8217; perspectives on many questions that mankind still debates on &#8211;  computers and human brains, time and space, God and evolution, (though I  felt it sometimes stretched the character&#8217;s possibilities a bit too  much) combined with his inability to comprehend several things we take  for granted &#8211; jokes, for example, or his having to cut a patch of hair  off because he wouldn&#8217;t let anyone shampoo off the paint that had got  stuck on it, makes for an endearing character, that leaves you poignant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chris&#8217; father Ed is also someone I felt sorry for, it is perhaps  impossible to comprehend the patience required to parent Chris. Chris&#8217;  teacher\/friend\/mentor Siobhan is also a memorable character for the  tremendous understanding she shows while helping him adjust to the ways  of the society he lives in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In essence, a unique and excellent read that makes one think of the paradox of simultaneous simplicity and complexity in the human life.<\/p>\n<p><iframe data-src=\"http:\/\/www.flipkart.com\/affiliateiframe.php?bc=FFFFFF&#038;tc=000000&#038;lc=A52A2A&#038;buy=&#038;affid=INmanublo&#038;id=PNW3F85YWF&#038;type=3&#038;price=yes&#038;border=yes&#038;height=260&#038;width=120\" style=\"width:120px;height:260px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Haddon Written from the perspective of Christopher John Francis Boone, a 15-year-old autistic boy, the book begins with Chris deciding to investigate the mystery of who killed his neighbour&#8217;s dog &#8211; Wellington. Despite several setbacks, even from his father, who is usually supportive, Chris continues his dogged pursuit. The rest of the book is <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2010\/10\/31\/the-curious-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-night-time\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[370,6004,6007],"tags":[1651,1649,1650],"class_list":["post-4768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-favourites","category-fiction","tag-autism","tag-mark-haddon","tag-the-curious-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-night-time"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4768"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14698,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions\/14698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}