DWA

Tyler Kiser

4/25/13

Mrs. Reagles 5^th hour

Text Analysis Essay

Every Little Detail

“Author’s Note:

I wrote this to demonstrate my understanding of Text Analysis.”

Have you ever listened to someone that knows every detail of every event he has taken place in? Do you know a person that does that? In The Curious Incident of the Dog in the night-time, a book I have read recently, the main character and narrator knows all the tiny details to all of the events that he has witnessed in the past and events in the present. This character isn't your average teenage boy though: he is autistic. Christopher, a 14 year old boy has a form of autism and OCD, he doesn't liked to be touched, he can name all the countries and their capitals in the world, and he knows all the prime numbers up to 7,057. Christopher is really just a smart human. 

Christopher from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the night-time picks up every detail to everything he sees. For example when Christopher first goes on his walk in the middle of the night, when he finds dead Wellington he has to pinpoint exactly what house the dog was dead in, "She lived on the opposite side of the road, two houses to the left." (2) This is where the house is on his street where he found the dead dog. Another example of his specific details is "And Mr. Jeavons smells of soap and wears brown shoes that has approximately 60 tiny circular holes in each of them." (5) This is when Christopher describes Mr. Jeavons. Really he can't help not being specific about everything; it is just how he is.

Christopher is a very smart boy especially in Math. Whenever Christopher gets mad or angry he "counted slowly to 50 but without doing the cubes." (170) Christopher was mad at the train station so instead of throwing a fit he counted to 50 but this time he didn't do all their cube roots. He also knows all the countries and capitals of the world, " "The capital city of Venezuela is... (a) Maracas, (b), Caracas, (c) Bogota or (d) Georgetown." And I knew that it was Caracas." (30) This shows that Christopher knows his capitals very well. This also shows that even though he has autism he can still be smart. Just because he is special doesn't mean he can't be intelligent  like other people. 

Christopher reminds me of a character from a TV show. His name is Shawn Spencer  and is from “Psych”. Shawn is a detective for the Santa Barbara Police department and is just like Christopher in so many ways. One way they are alike is he notices all of the tiny details that the other characters miss. He then uses them to solve crimes like Christopher who solved the Wellington Case. Finally they both are very intelligent. For instance Shawn took a police test to see if he qualified to be a detective and he aced it while no one else in history has ever got a 100%. On the other hand Christopher got an “A grade” on his A level math test.

Overall Christopher is a kind-hearted,  smart kid like everyone else or most people at least. Just because he has autism doesn’t mean Christopher can't change the world with his 6th sense. You never know, maybe someday Christopher will become a real astronaut  or a detective with his highly sophisticated brain. In conclusion Christopher John Francis Boone isn't your average teenager, but a brilliant 14 year old.