Curious Dog does has many points to comment upon.
Chistopher is different but not strange
Haddon presents Christopher as the hero of the story.
He is different. He assembles differently. Typically, he might be labelled as having an intellectual disability. Such people are often judged as ‘strange’. Haddon challenges this persepctive.
Haddon goes to great length to show that Christopher is merely different, and assembles and experiences the world in novel ways. For Christopher, a logical, factual, diagrammatic world is what he experiences and works with. And his way of understanding does take him to the point of his quest, to find out who killed the dog, a crime for which he was blamed.
This detective quest, unfortunately reveals for him some unsavoury facts about his past family life, revealing his mother’s abandonment of him, and an affair with the neighbour which was deeply resented by Christopher’s father.
Consider other characters who might be seen as ‘strange’....
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