Narrators

This post is in response to Narrators on his blog.

My favorite narrator is Christopher John Francis Boone in Mark Haddon's the curious incident in the dog in the night-time. He is an interesting narrator for a few reasons. Christopher knows all of the countries in the world along with their capitals and he also knows all of the prime numbers up to 7,057. However, he hates the color yellow and doesn't like to be touched. Christopher is autistic. 

The story starts after the neighbor next door, Mrs. Shears' dog, Wellington, was stabbed with a spear. Christopher becomes a suspect and when the police decide to investigate him he ends up hitting the police officer because the officer touched Christopher. Even though he ended up receiving a police caution from hitting the police officer, Christopher, going against the better judgement of his father, decides to investigate the murder of Wellington. The novel then becomes a sort of journal for Christopher to record everything that happens during his adventure.

I really enjoyed this novel mostly because before that I had never really read a novel about an autistic kid before. I did have to read this for Mr. Davidson's English I class back in Freshmen year and if it wasn't for him making me read it I would probably not have read it. I am happy that he made me read it since it was really enjoyable and very interesting from an autistic person's perspective. Others might appreciate it as well because it give readers a perspective from an autistic person's viewpoint that other readers might have not necessarily encountered before.