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#2--CHARACTERIZATION
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capital cities and every prime number up to 7,507; however, he can not fit in to the society very well. That is because he does not understand what these mean:. He says "it was

very difficult to decide which of the diagrams was most like the face they were making because people's faces move very quickly." (p.4) He

can relate to animals very well, but not with people around him. Christopher is suffering from autism and has a very peculiar mind. He

sometimes fraustrates other people around him because he can not understand what they are saying very well but he is, infact, very innocent

and a nice boy. His actions are constantly considered rude and inacceptable by some people although he is not trying to cause trouble. He

becomes very fraustrated when things does not go the way he would like it to go and disturbes other people by groaning on the ground or

yelling madly. His mind works like a machine; he never forgets anything ( he can even rewind his memory to find out what day something

happen, like a CD player.) and is very good at working with numbers. He can easily draw maps or play certain games in his head and his

mind is metaphorically programmed to disgust the colours, yellow and brown. He sometimes dreams that everyone dies except people like

Christopher- who can not understand and interpret people's emtions. This dream makes Christopher very happy. I am jealous of Christopher's

amazing abilities in Math and other similar areas, but I would not like to be Christopher because he can not understand other people and

interpret their emotions. Also, Christopher would not make a good friend because he does not like strangers. He says, "I do not like strangers

because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand. It is like being in France..... and I hated it because you

couldn't understand what anyone was saying, which was frightening." (p.49) Even if I got to know him, he would not make a very good friend

because he is not sociable at all. Thus, Christopher, with his peculiar mind, is surely an extraordinary and interesting charcter in **//The Curious//**

//**Incident of the Dog in the Night-time**// by Mark Haddon.