Who said Life was Easy?

Authors note: This essay will be about an autistic boy named Christopher in the story, “The curious incident of the dog in the night-time,” and why he is a dynamic character.

Christopher isn’t just like any other 15 year old boy, Christopher is autistic. His mind works differently than a normal person. Christopher notices things other people don’t, he can remember numbers, and he has rules that he makes about life. Raising an autistic kid is much harder than a regular kid. Christopher is brilliant in some areas but when it comes to people he has to think extra hard. Things such as feelings and jokes Christopher does not understand, which makes it harder on his father who does it alone because his mother died of a “heart attack, “when he was younger. Christopher is a dynamic character because of the things can do even with his disability.

Throughout Christopher’s life he has always lived within his own comfort zone, and didn’t like taking risks. After his neighbor Ms. Shear’s dog named Wellington was murdered, Christopher was on the case, he would go to any length to find Wellington’s murder. Christopher went around asking his neighbors if they have seen anything the night Wellington which was breaking his rule of talking to strangers.

Later in the book Christopher finds these letters in his father’s room addressed to him, they were from his mother. He realized the date on the letters, his mother had not died, she moved to London. Which leads him to think, if his mother didn’t die what happened to her? Why did she leave? Later when Christopher’s father came home he told Christopher that he had kicked her out, because she cheated on him with Mr. Shears. Then he told Christopher, “I’m going to tell you the truth from now on Christopher, I killed Wellington.” Christopher no longer felt safe in his father’s presence, he knew he had to take a risk and run away. Christopher has never been out of town before by himself. He was off to find his mother in London in which he would have to take a 3 hour train to get to. This was a huge challenge for Christopher.

Overall Christopher all throughout the story faces challenges, he is not normally used to. It varies from talking to stranger to taking a train to London. Without Christopher there would be no story, he figures out things that other people don’t. Christopher isn’t going to let his disability stop him from doing what he wants to do.