the curious insident of the dog at night time.

Today we finished the novel The curious incident of the dog at night time, christopher’s mother is fired from her job for taking leave. Christopher demands to be taken to Swindon to take his A-level test.The next morning, Mother and Christopher leave for Swindon, she explains that if they stayed in London any longer someone would get hurt. Gayscone still has his A-level test sealed on her desk, and that they are going to try to get Reverend Peters to come over so Christopher can take his test after all. but before the end of the novel Christopher chronicles his investigation in a book—the book we are reading—as part of a school assignment. As Christopher conducts interviews with residents on his block about the crime he uncovers a more tangled plot than was first apparent when he discovers that his father and the owner of the slain dog, Mrs. Shears, had a romantic affair. He subsequently learns that their affair began in reaction to another relationship, one carried on between Mr. Shears and Christopher’s mother, before she disappeared from Christopher’s life. At school Christopher prepares for an A-level math exam that will enable him to attend a university. One afternoon Christopher accidentally leaves his book in plain view on the kitchen table. His father reads it, becomes angry, and confiscates it. While searching for his book he finds a series of letters, hidden in a shirt box in his father’s closet, addressed to him from his supposedly dead mother. The letters chronicle a life that his mother has continued to lead with Mr. Shears in London and contain repeated requests for Christopher to respond. When Christopher’s father realizes what has happened, he breaks down in tears. He apologizes for his lies, explaining that he acted out of a desire to protect Christopher from the knowledge of his mother’s abandonment of the family. Christopher’s father also admits to killing Wellington after an argument with Mrs. Shears, his lover. Christopher feeling he can no longer trust his father, sneaks out of the house and travels to London to live with his mother.