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//__ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime __//

Author:Mark Haddon




= "Christopher John Francis knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7057. He relates to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow. This improbable story of Christopher's quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating, unusual, and widely heralded novels in recent years." ~ Mark Haddon. = = =

====**“Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.”** ====

====**“On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty."** ====

====**“Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying."** ====

====**"All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are."** ====

====**“I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don't like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish.”** ====


__//Why did we make our homepage like this? //__  Well you may be wondering, "//Why is everything in red and yellow??"// and we can tell you this. This is because these two colors a major part of Christopher's life. He doesn't like anything that is yellow and loves everything that is red. He even won't eat food that is yellow or brown, another color he hates, but he won't even eat food that has touched other food on his.This is because Christopher is different from us. He's special. You couldn't call him stupid though because you come to learn how intelligent this young boy is. Along with that, he is very persistent and very firm in his beliefs. Christopher's main problem is trusting and connecting with people, even people as close as his parents. This book shows that everyone has problems, however. It doesn't matter if you are considered "special" because everyone is different. Christopher's **Good Days** are when four red cars pass by and his **Black Days** are when four yellow cars pass by. A **Good Day** is when he takes risks and a **Black Day** is when he takes none at all. This may be out of the ordinary and not very logical, but Christopher says that people always do things that are unlogical, not because it is the wrong thing to do, but because they just like to do things in that order.The story really takes a turn when Christopher takes a risk, but in the end, it was a **Good** outcome.