Authors Note: This is a poem written to mirror the events of the book "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time", by Mark Haddon, and a few paragraphs to explain how it connects to the book, and hopefully helps you understand the book. Any constructive criticism would be helpful, so pleas comment.
A single boy,
Struck by tragedy,
His heart damaged and
painful,
Finds himself,
Within his father’s
resolve,
And masked by his own
anger.
He sets out,
To find the truth,
And breaks down
again,
Only to find what he
was looking for,
Among the ruins,
Of his broken heart.
He brushes away the
ashes,
And finally he can
see,
Clearly the secrets,
Which his father had
kept,
Of his mother,
Who he thought was
dead,
And the criminal,
Who started this
chain reaction.
He breaks free,
Of the iron chains,
That bound him,
With his newfound
key,
Formed from
realization,
And forged in the
fire of rage.
But sometimes a warm
fire,
Can bring people
together around it,
And as they bask in
the flames,
They realize they’re
not so different,
And that they need
each other.
This poem was created to mirror the
events of the book “The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-time”, by Mark
Haddon.
The book starts with the main
character, Christopher, stumbling across his neighbor’s dog who was murdered
the night before. He was upset and mad, and ended up punching a policeman, only
to be calmed by his father. This is accurately mirrored by the first stanza,
where the boy is faced with a tragedy and is mad, but his father calms him down
some.
Later, he tries to discover what
happened, and angers his father, who takes his notes on the mystery and hides
them. When he looks for the book, he not only finds it, but he also finds out
the truth about who killed wellington, and finds out that his mother, who the
thought was dead, is actually alive and has been writing him letters. This is
shown in the second and third stanzas, where the boy tries to find the truth,
but then breaks down, and finds the truth while he is still sad.
Next, near the end of the book,
Christopher decides to leave his dad, who murdered his neighbor’s dog, and go
live with his mother, but it’s really hard, and his dad tracks him down. In the
end, his mother and father are fighting, but they realize that they really do
make a good pair and the book ends happily.
The last two stanzas replicate the feeling perfectly, showing how he
broke free and went on his own, but in their anger, the family is brought
together.
This poem is an accurate
representation of the book and hopefully is helpful in understanding it. It was
based off the book, but it’s possible that it’s good enough that people could
easily start thinking about the chicken and the egg, and which came first.
