No Trust

Author's Note: This is a cause and effect piece about the book the curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon. 


The curious incident of the dog in the night-time has many conflicts throughout the book. One of the biggest problems is that Chris the main character of the story finds out that he has been lied to about many things. When he does his investigating to find who killed the neighbors dog he finds all these things about his mom and dad he didn't know for most of his life. There are many other conflicts that cause this event to happen. Like the book starting out with the dog found dead, Chris's investigation and his dad taking his book. Once he tries to look for the book and do the investigating he finds the hidden letters from his mom who is supposed to dead.

This event sends the story spiraling out of control. Along with finding the letters he also finds that his dad was the one who killed the dog. The effect; Chris doesn't trust his dad anymore. Sometimes this happens in real life. Say you've known someone for the longest time then, bam they change and you lose trust in them. There have been a few times where I haven't trusted my parents but then you realize that you are overreacting and regain trust in them because you love them. Luckily this happens in the book too. Except for the fact that the rebuilding of trust is a lot slower.

The whole thing was caused by one lie and escalated to be something a lot larger. This one little event effected the whole story. Luckily it ended happily but their are many options Mark Haddon had on how this event effected the story.