![]() ![]() The author describes the special school environment in which challenged children study and illustrates autistic responses to stress. The book brilliantly portrays the mind and behavior of a person with autism without being sentimental or condescending and helps the reader understand the difficulties that such an individual has with information overload, social relationships, and emotional abstractions. There are interesting digressions of all sorts interspersed throughout the text, ranging from astronomy to psychology and from mathematics to physics. The subsequent chapters describe how Christopher tries to find out who killed the dog. ![]() It looked as if it was running on its side, the way dogs run when they think they are chasing a cat in a dream. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs. In the first chapter, Christopher describes his discovery of the killing of Wellington, the poodle that belonged to his neighbor, Mrs. The book is written in the first person and has 233 chapters (but this is only because Christopher used consecutive prime numbers instead of consecutive integers to number the chapters). The book presents the story of Christopher, a 15-year-old boy with autism. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is one of the few exceptions. ![]() Most fictional depictions of mental disorders are distorted and pander to, encourage, or even exaggerate popular misconceptions. ![]()
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