(Note: This is a re-post with minor edits. I once posted this summary in my old blog in 2005, which does not exist now).
Novel Title: A curious incident of the dog in the night-time (Author: Mark Haddon)
This novel tells a story with the perspective of an autistic boy, Christopher, 15 years old. The story started with a death of a dog belonged to a neighbor, which made Christopher decided to investigate to find out who themurderer was, which led to surprising and sad revelations.
Christopher likes Sherlock Holmes (for being logical) but doesn’t like the author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (who believed in supernatural things). Christopher loves dogs, wants to be an astronaut, has a videographic (not just photographic) memory, is very brilliant in math (knows prime numbers up to a very big number) and science. He’s always honest (because he cannot make up stories to lie). He hates yellow and brown, loves red, doesn’t like crowds (and strangers) and always has big problem recognizing human emotions and sentences with metaphors (though similes are OK).
This novel gives some insights of how an autistic mind works.
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