He then uses the word “Honestly” assuming that after lying to Chris about something extremely upsetting he would trust anything that came out of his mouth. In the first sentence he states that he lied on purpose to protect Christopher from the truth so he didn’t get hurt. I never meant to lie.’” (Haddon 114) was after Chris had found out the truth about his mother.
The quote, “Then he said, ‘I did it for your good, Christopher. The biggest lie Ed hid from Christopher was that his mother was dead. In ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime’, Chris’s father, Ed Boone, continually avoids the truth by lying to himself and his son. Bellian ELA SCP 20 August 2018 the way he handles telling the truth throughout the story in that his father gets aggravated with him every time he knows Chris is telling a white lie. We see the impact of Chris’s disability and Krista Morrell Ms. This statement also summarizes Chris’s life in that he must compensate for even the smallest things he does because of how his disease affects his brain and the way he sees things. This shows that if there is a scenario where Christopher has to do anything to cover up what really happened, it must be in a hasty way. It is where you tell the truth but you do not tell all of the truth.” (Haddon 48). At one point in the novel, Chris explains to the reader how he compensates for his inability to tell lies in the quote, “And I said, ‘I have been out.’ This is called a white lie. Chris is not able to lie because of the discomfort it causes him to think about scenarios that have not happened in real life.
In ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime’, Haddon tells the reader how Christopher’s Asperger’s syndrome prohibits him from lying and how he deals with this.
In the novel, Haddon explains how Christopher deals with not physically being able to lie, how his Father has a repetitive pattern of trying to cover up the truth, and what effect Chris’s father’s lies have on him.
Christopher tries to always tell the absolute truth and his Father tries to avoid it. “The most dangerous lies are the lies you tell yourself.” In “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime”, Mark Haddon contrasts the characters of Christopher Boone and his Father in the way they deal with the truth. Examine the role of truth and lies throughout the novel.
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