possible theme on this novel?

Question

the curios incident of a dog in a nightime by mark haddon

Answer 1

"Like any good suspense novel, Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time wastes no time getting into the thick of action. On the very first page, fifteen-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone, the novel's protagonist discovers the corpse of his neighbor's dog impaled by a pitchfork. The incident acts as a catalyst, setting Christopher on a quest - inspired by his favorite character Sherlock Holmes - to find out who is responsible for the gruesome crime.

Christopher, though, is not the kind of run-of-the-mill precocious young detective we all remember reading about as kids. Rather, Christopher suffers from a fairly intense autism, an affliction that seriously effects the way he comes to research the case, the way he interprets the information he uncovers, and ultimately how that information is passed on to the reader. Christopher's autism is also what sets Haddon's novel apart from those other young detective novels, as the focus of the story is much less about who killed the dog, and much more about the way Christopher goes about uncovering who is responsible."

Judging from that, I think that some good themes to explore for a novel study would be:

Good vs. evil -- what makes a good action? What makes an evil action?

What makes a person choose good over evil?

Personality vs. nature vs. soul

Answer 2

A dog night

Answer 3

I'm not entirely sure yet (still reading it for school) but I think it may be change, or learning. Does that help any?