UR The C I O U S Incident

UR The C I O U S Incident of the dog in the Night-time By: Mark Haddon

My Name is Christopher John Francis Boone. I know All the countries AND their capital cities AND every prime number up to 7, 057. 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’m meant to say that they have learning difficulties or that they have special needs. But this is stupid because everyone has learning difficulties because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult and also everyone has special needs, like Father, who has to carry a little packet of artificial sweetening tablets around with him to in his coffee to stop him from getting fat, or Mrs. Peters, who wears a beige-colored hearing aid, or Siobhan, who has glasses so thick that they give you a headache if you borrow them, and none of these people are Special Needs, even if they have special needs.

These are some of my behavior problems… Groaning Not liking yellow things or brown things Getting cross with some one who has moved the furniture Not liking being touched Screaming when I’m angry or confused Not liking being in really small places with other people Smashing things when I’m angry or confused

Sometimes these things would make mother and father really angry and they would shout at me or they would shout at each other. Sometimes Father would say… I am seriously “Jesus, Christopher, considering putting you in a home, ”… “Christopher, if you do not behave I swear I shall knock the living daylights out of you” Or mother would say… “You are going to drive me into an early grave. ”

Mr. Jeavons said that I liked maths because it was safe. Supposing that you choose door X, the possibility that you win a car if you then switch you’re choice is given by the following formula P(Hz ^Cy) + P(Hy ^ Cz) = P(Cy) * P(Hz|Cy) + P(Cz) * P(Hy|Cz) = (1/3 * 1) + (1/3 * 1) = 2/3

These are reasons I hate the color yellow Custard Double yellow lines Bananas Yellow fever These are the reasons I hate the color brown Dirt Poo Gravy Wood

…I looked all round the big room at all the signs to see if this was London. And the signs said But after a few secon Sweet Pastries Heathrow Airport Check-in here it looked like… Bagel Factory EAT excellence and taste YD! Sushi Stationlink Buses W H Smith Mezzanine Heathrow Express Clinique First Class Lounge FULLERS easy. Car. com The Mad Bishop and Bear Public House Fuller’s London Pride Dixons Our Price Paddington Bear at Paddington Station Tickets Taxis Toilets First Aid Eastbourne Terrace INFORMATION Great Western First Position Closed Sock Shop Fast Ticket Point Burger King…

…And then I will get a first class honors degree and I will become a scientist. And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery of Who Killed Wellington? And I found my mother and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.