The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Post Reading

“I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical, but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.”
In the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time the main character Christopher has a very logical way of thinking things out. In the novel Christopher solves a mystery of his neighbor’s dog, Wellington. Throughout the novel Christopher takes you through his thought process of everything that he does in his everyday life and while solving any mysteries that happened during the book. Christopher has also been diagnosed with asperger’s syndrome which means that it is hard for him to communicate with other people and he often takes things in a very literal sense. He never understands things in a figurative sense like idioms for example they confuse him. Christopher believes in the logical use of prime numbers as well. Prime numbers don’t have a divisor greater than one and itself. In many way prime numbers are like the mysterious ways of Wellington’s investigation. When Christopher found out that his mother who was believed to be deceased was alive and sending letters to Mr.Shears the only answer that made sense as to why his mother who; should have been six feet under was sending letters was because she was in fact alive. In the end Christopher reached the goals that he set out to reach through his logical and reasonable thinking.
In life you can never question why things happen the way that they do or how fate works it just does. Prime numbers just for some reason happen to work just like life does. In my life I try hard to think things through in a rational way. I’m known to be very optimistic, kind, and maybe even nerdy but the way to be able to stay sane in life is to not to let your emotions come to par with certain things. Emotions are hard to deal with because they have a way of making situations messy at times. In my mind there are many ways that things can play out however the right way to do is always the way that you naturally go toward or fated to do. In my fourteen years of life I have been verbal altercations a few times this is an example of a time when  logical thinking would have been the better decision to make. When us as people act on emotions rather than logic we sometimes dig holes that is are hard to get out of.
In both the novel and my own life I have learned that logic can be a systematic and rational way of thinking. Christopher taught me something valuable and that was that emotions may be a good way outlet for your feelings rational thinking is an amazing way to deal situations.

“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.”
― Galileo Galilei