Focus+Assignment

** #1—PLOT **
====Write a short plot summary of your novel. This should be about 250 words(1 page). Include information such as: What the title has to do with the book, where and when the story happens, who is telling the story, what the central conflict is in the story, what the climax is, how the climax is resolved – or if it isn’t, and whether or not you enjoyed the plot and your reasons.====

The curious incident of the dog in the night-time is set in england and is from the perspective of a young autistic boy, Christopher. Immediately you, as the reader, are intrigued with the plot. Christopher is going for a mid night walk when he comes across a dead dog with a fork imbedded in its chest on his neighbours lawn. Hence the title. Just as he goes over to asses the situation from a closer distance his neighbour, Mrs. Shears, comes out and assumes that he killed her dog so she begins to yell at him and calls the police. His dad picks him up at the police station and when they get home, tells him that his mom, who was in the hospital, has died from a heart attack. The next day Christopher goes to Mrs. Shears house to tell her that he did not kill the dog but she shuts the door on him and does not acknowledge him. It is after this that he decides to become a detective and discover who killed the dog. He starts to write a book about it and begins his detecting operation by going around the neighbourhood asking if anyone knows who killed the dog. No one knows or has any information so he decides his biggest suspect is Mrs. Shears' x, Mr Shears. The day after that Chris' dad gets mad because he told Christopher to mind his own buisness and tells him not to do any more detecting. His father also takes away the book wich he was writing. While looking for the book that his father hid, Christopher finds a bunch of letters addressed to himself and begins to read them. They turn out to be from his mother and after reading a few Christopher finds out that his mother is not dead and is living in London with Mr. Shears. When his father finds out about hhim reading about the letters he tells him that he acctually killed the dog and about why he lied about his mom dying. Because Christopher now thinks that his father is a murderer, he does not want to live at home anymore. He cannot think of anywhere else to go but his mothers, so with the address from the letters he begins making his way to the train station. Meanwhile Chris' dad discovers that Christopher is gone and phones the police suspecting that he has runaway to his mothers house in London. Christopher gets very overwhelmed by the busy station but gets on the train anyway. A policeman sees him and gets on the train with him. Just as they are getting off the train to take him home it begins to move and they are forced to wait until the next stop. Part way through the trip to the next station Christopher has to go to the bathroom but once he gets there he hides. When the train arrives at the next station, the policeman suspects that Chris has gotten off so he gets off to look for him. Chris actually gets off in london and finds his way to his mothers apartment. he tells her all about the letters and how his dad lied to him about many things. Roger does not understand Chris' behaviour and his mom gets very angry with him. Roger and Chris' mom split up and she moves back to the old house with Chris. Christopher and his mother stay at the dad's for a while but he tells the mother to find her own place to live. She buys a place close to his house and Christopher goes with her. Since the dad feels bad about lying to Chris about so many things he buys him a puppy. Christopher goes back to school and completes his level A maths and gets a great mark on it. The book ends with Chris's dad trying to amend the trust that he has broken. My thoughts I thought that this book was a bit boring because the pace was slow and I was not fond of the plot. When I first heard about it I thought that this book would be more of a mystery novel as opposed to a drama. The mystery itself was also quite predictable. I did like however, that it was from the view of someone who is autistic because it gave the plot a twist and everything the protagonist did was an extra challenge. I also the author did a good job of portraying an autistic person.