Ada Ng 

In “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”, Mark Haddon explores the most important part of the reading would be the change in Christopher and his father’s relationship throughout the story. In the beginning of the story, on page 16, you can see that Christopher was in jail for hitting a police officer and his father had to pick him up. When they saw each, instead of physical contact which Christopher does not like, his father spread his fingers out like a fan and waited for Christopher to do the same thing so their thumbs would touch, meaning they love each other. This connection implies that their relationship is close and healthy, Christopher is comfortable with his father. Their relationship changes after Christopher found out his father killed the neighbor’s dog, Wellington, and becomes afraid of his father and runs away to live with his mother. On page 197 when his father is trying to ask for his forgiveness and tries to have the same connection, Christopher refuses to return the same motion. This reveals that their relationship has worsen and probably broken.

In the story of the curiosa incident of the dog in the nighttime the main characters complexity through the story can confuse. Christopher has a 360 of emotions from the beginning to the end of the story. Christopher and his mother have a rocky relationship in his early childhood as she had a hard time controlling him. " and you grabbed the chopping board and you threw that and it hit my foot and broke my toes." The characters relationship with his mother is a strain on her causing her to leave for London. His bond with his father is strong they have trust. The father understands Christopher and knows her does not like to give hugs so they made there own personal way of conveying love. " I held up my left hand and spread my fingers out in a fan and we made our thumbs touch each other. We do this because sometimes father wants to give me a hug, but I do not like hugs." You then see Christopher's feelings change toward his father when he finds his mothers letters and his father catches him.  Soon after he decides to go live with his mother in England because he can no longer trust his father and he is scared of him because he killed Wellington. This illustrates the mix of emotions Christopher has when it comes to his parents. He does not know who to trust anymore.