![]() ![]() ![]() One of the implications of this is in the way the chapters are numbered: his love of prime numbers leads to him skipping all others. This makes for a very interesting narrative style, which is intriguing to read. The novel is narrated by fifteen-year-old Christopher, who has Asperger’s Syndrome. Thus begins Mark Haddon’s wonderful novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003). I stroked Wellington and wondered who had killed him, and why. It had curly black fur, but when you got close you could see that the skin underneath the fur was very pale yellow, like chicken. Not one of the small that have hairstyles but a big poodle. She lived on the opposite side of the road, two houses to the left. I walked onto her lawn and knelt beside the dog. I decided that the dog was probably killed with the fork because I could not see any other wounds in the dog and I do not think you would stick a garden fork into a dog after it had died for some other reason, like cancer, for example, or a road accident. ![]() The points of the fork must have gone all the way through the dog and into the ground because the fork had not fallen over. There was a garden fork sticking out of the dog. It looked as if it was running on its side, the way dogs run when they think they are chasing a cat in a dream. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time ![]()
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