It was 1998 at Swindon, England. The narrator of the story, Christopher John Francis Boone is mathematically gifted, and I will mention a bit of this further, He struggles for social acceptance and understanding because it seems like he has apparent autism. He loves logic and order, due to this, he makes Wellington’s murder an irresistible puzzle for him to solve. Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow(Vintage, May 18, 2004). He is only fifteen years old and he discovered the slain body of his neighbor’s dog Wellington, his investigation is either benefited or soiled because of his autism. "Is acting a lie?" asks 15-year-old Christopher, whose autism means he can only ever tell the truth, and who is determined to discover who was responsible for murdering the neighbour's dog.(Lyn Gardner, March 13 2013)
Christopher tells the story in a book—the book we are reading—as part of a school assignment (as I am doing now). Christopher ignored his father, who was single and owner of a heating maintenance and boiler repair business, and kept the investigation of the crime scene and the residents of his neighborhood. The story got a lot more intense when he discovered that his own father, and Mrs. Shears, a neighbor of the Boones’ and ex-wife of Roger Shears also the slain dog’s owner, had a romantic affair. He get to the conclusion that their affair began because of another relationship between Mr. Shears and his mom, who Christopher always believed she died of a heart attack and he had always remembered her as a loving but impatient woman. After all, neither Haddon nor the reader really cares about that dog (or at least I didn't). The novel is a much bigger picture than that: about how a child's illness can affect not only his life, but the lives of his...