The Curious Conflict of Christopher Boone's Life

Author's Note: If you want to read The Curious Incident of the dog in the Night-Time, DO NOT READ THIS PIECE.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a book like no other. First of all, it's a mouth-full to say out loud, and secondly, it's written by a 15 year old kid with autism. Based off of the title, you could infer that the main conflict has to do with the dog in the night-time, but that is not the case. The book starts out like that, but as it develops, you start to realize that this book is about the bigger picture in Christopher Boone's life.  The story starts out with Christopher finding a dog with a pitchfork stuck in it, this starts the snowball effect that ultimately becomes the main conflict. He, being a fan of mystery books, decides to write his own to find out who the murderer is. The first three quarters of the story involves Christopher trying to find his culprit, when his father, being very annoyed by the fact that Chris is writing this book, takes and hides his it. Christopher eventually finds it along with 43 letters from his "dead" mom.

It turn's out that Christopher's  mom wasn't actually dead, but had left his dad. His dad said that she had a heart attack, as a cover story, but his mom didn't know this and continued to write weekly letters. The whole part with the dog ties in with the ending, because Chris's dad confessed that he had murdered the neighbor's dog. Now that Christopher knows the truth, he is frightened by his dad and comes to the conclusion that he can't live with his him anymore. This is the conflict. The resolution is quite impressive by the standards of a young adult with autism. Christopher decides that he will live with his mother in London. So he musters up all of his courage and makes the trip to London, involving trains, subway, talking to other people, loud noises, and crowds of people, all of which he was extremely frighten and agitated by. Although he doesn't end up living in London, all is well at the end because he showed up at his mom's house. All of this never would of happened if Christopher would not of started writing his book.The conflict in this story is between Christopher and his dad (person to person), but the resolution depended solely on one person and his actions, Christopher Boone.