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Throughout the book we can clearly see the direction Mark wishes to take. When he writes in the place of Christopher there are many examples of simple sentences, therefore meaning he  is a very straight to the point kind of person and doesn't like to have things get in the way. When other characters talk such as Siobhan you can clearly see she talks to him in a subtle tone. Her melancholy voice is easily heard from the book.

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Cristopher is in a cell. His dad comes looking for him. His dad desperately shouts "I want to see my son". The policeman calms Christopher dad. At 1:28 AM the policeman opens the cell's door and tells him that there is someone that wants to see him. He stepped outside and his father was standing in the corridor.

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Now Christopher tells us a little about why he finds people confusing. And from the way he says it, it makes us wonder why we don't find people every bit as confusing as he does.
(For example: "Siobhan also says that if you close your mouth and breathe out loudly through your nose it can mean that you are relaxed, or that you are bored, or that you are angry and it all depends on how much air comes out of your nose and how fast and what shape your mouth is in when you do it and how you are sitting and what you said just before and hundreds of other things which are too complicated to work out in a few seconds" [29.4]. See what we mean?)

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When Christopher arrives at the police station, they make him empty his pockets, and he describes in detail what he had with him They try to take his watch, but he screams, so they let him keep it. Then they ask him if he has any family. Short answer? Yes. Long answer? Everything Christopher says: he tells them about his father and his uncles and his grandparents and, well, way more information than they need to know. He also tells them (and us) that his mother is dead. They ask for his father's phone number, and put Christopher into a cell. While he's in there, Christopher figures out the volume of air present in the cell, and also works out what would be the best way to escape (if he were in a story, that is). Those are some major math chops he has. He also wonders if Mrs. Shears told the police that he killed her dog. If she did, he figures she'll go to prison when they find out she was lying.

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The policeman tells Christopher he's being arrested for assault. When he hears this, he feels much calmer, because it's the kind of thing cops say on TV. The policeman puts him into the back of his police car, and Christopher looks out the window up at the stars. He takes this opportunity to tell us a little about the universe. It turns out he likes scientific facts, because they are things "you can work out in your own mind [...] without having to ask anyone" (17.13).

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Finally the big mystery of the chapter numbers is revealed! It's all about – wait for it – prime numbers. Christopher loves 'em.

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Here we get another step back into the mind of the narrator. Christopher tells us that this book won't include any jokes because he doesn't understand them.
He particularly dislikes puns and sentences with multiple meanings because it makes him feel like a lot of people are all talking at once. Sounds like Shmoop's family dinners.

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"This is a murder mystery novel," Christopher announces (7.1). Siobhan had told him to write something he would like to read himself, and he likes murder mystery novels (particularly the Sherlock Holmes ones). So there you have it. Siobhan says that murder mysteries are usually about the murder of a person, and it would be pretty unusual to write one about a dog. But Christopher quickly offers up a few reasons why writing about the dog is okay: (1) he likes dogs; (2) he wants to write about something that really happened to him, because he has a hard time imagining things; and (3) he doesn't know any people who have been murdered. Pretty sound reasoning, right? He also mentions that some dogs are "more clever and more interesting" than some people – particularly the ones in his class (7.8). Ouch!

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Now we're back in Mrs. Shears' yard, and the police have just arrived. Christopher likes the police, because they "have uniforms and numbers and you know what they are meant to be doing" (11.1). In other words, their consistency and order make him feel safe. (Read more about order and safety in our "Themes" section.) One policeman leads Mrs. Shears into her house and the other one walks over to talk to Christopher. (Remember, he's still crouched on the ground, with his face in the grass.) They don't have such an easy time talking. First, Christopher answers the policeman's questions very literally, and the cop is confused. (For example, he asks what Christopher was doing in the garden. Christopher answers honestly that he was holding the dog, but the policeman just wanted to know why he was in the garden in the first place.) Then the policeman starts asking questions very quickly (like "Did you kill the dog?" and "Is this your fork?") and Christopher gets a little freaked out and overwhelmed (11.17, 11.19). We would be, too. Not cool, Mr. Policeman. To make himself feel better, Christopher lies back down on the grass and starts groaning, which he finds very calming. (He compares the groaning to white noise.) The policeman tries to pick Christopher up off the ground. Christopher doesn't like this one bit, and so… he hits him.

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We know what you're thinking: "Chapter 2? What happened to Chapter 1? But there is no Chapter 1. This book begins with Chapter 2. "But why?" you ask. We'll get to that, we assure you. "This is weird and confusing," you insist. And so we give you a nice cup of hot cocoa and tell you to relax, and just keep reading. Okay, so, Chapter 2. It's seven minutes after midnight and there's a dead dog lying on someone's front lawn, with a garden fork sticking out of its side. This is certainly a curious incident, finding this dog here in the night-time, wouldn't you say But wait, that's just the first paragraph. Next, the narrator leans down beside the dog, and finds that it's still warm. The narrator knows this dog – his name is (or was) Wellington, and he belongs to his neighbor, Mrs. Shears. The narrator pets the dog and wonders who killed him, and why. Curious, indeed.

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Mr. Shears and Christopher's mother run off together. Mrs. Shears and Christopher's father, left behind, try out a romance, too. Mrs. Shears backs out, though, so Christopher's father kills her dog. With a pitchfork. In case we hadn't already mentioned that.

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(There is no chapter 1, all the chapters are in prime numbers)
It's seven minutes after midnight and there's a dead dog lying on someone's front lawn, with a garden fork sticking out of its side. This is certainly a curious incident, finding this dog here in the night-time, wouldn't you say? But wait, that's just the first paragraph. Next, the narrator leans down beside the dog, and finds that it's still warm. The narrator knows this dog – his name is (or was) Wellington, and he belongs to his neighbor, Mrs. Shears. The narrator pets the dog and wonders who killed him, and why. Curious, indeed.

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Christopher introduces himself, informing the reader that he knows a lot about geography and prime numbers. Eight years ago, he tells us, he met his teacher Siobhan. She showed him pictures of cartoon faces with various expressions, but he couldn’t say which expression fit which emotion. He had Siobhan make a guide of various faces and what they meant, but it didn’t work very well when he tried to use it to decode real people’s expressions. He eventually tore it up, so now if he doesn’t understand someone, he asks for clarification or just leaves the conversation.

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Ed is the father of Christopher Boone. Miss regarding Christopher's spectrum he is brave enough to take care of his child alone. He is seen as a bad person towards the end due to the fact that he lies to Christopher telling him his mother died. Furthermore he is the murderer of the Mrs. Shears's dog.

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Judy is Christopher's mother. She was brought to the story as someone we wouldn't hear about the rest of the story however it turned out that she was alive and that she wrote numerous letters to her son. Letters that her husband kept hidden in a box.

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Asperger syndrome, also known as Asperger's, is a developmental disorder characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, along with restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. Being a teenager on the spectrum is extremely hard because it is a time of change in the body and brain.

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Christopher John Francis Boone, a fifteen-year-old boy with an autism spectrum condition, lives with his father, who has told him that his mother, Judy, died two years ago.