Back when I was in kindergarten, I had this best friend, we were the bestest friends of all best friends, even though we were very different. She was always the brave one, and me – I was the one who cried at every obstacle that had been thrown at me. I remember climbing up the monkey bars with her and being too afraid to come down. She was afraid too, even though she stubbornly denied it. Being the risk taker she was, she had pushed away her fears and jumped, she scraped her knee pretty bad but it was all worth it to her. But me? I stayed up on the monkey unwilling to come down until my parent came and carried me down. And that was one example of us being different. “People may react to adverse circumstances in different ways.” For example – Liesel form The Book Thief by Mark Zusak may react to adversity differently than Elie Wiesel would and so can Christopher from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon. Everyone is different with their own schema and that’s what makes them unique. Throughout the book Christopher’s most challenging adversity was dealing with emotions. Christopher solves problem with logic and perseverance, emotions are not needed. After discovering …show more content…
In Christopher’s dream he talked not knowing what expressions meant and being all alone. One might think that Christopher is selfish, but he does not know how to not be selfish. Christopher often did math when he was afraid or nervous to calm him down like doing “Conway’s Soldiers” when he was in the train station. Besides logic, perseverance is another solution to Christopher’s problems. He refused to give up on neither investing on Wellington’s murder nor forgiving Father. Christopher may not familiar with the concept of emotions, but logic and perseverance was enough for him to overcome