The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time CONFLICT/PROTAGONIST/ANTAGONIST/CLIMAX/OUTCOME/LITERARY FIGURES
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T HE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF T HE DOG IN T HE NIGHT T IME SUMMARY
MAJOR LIT ERARY OR CULT URAL REFERENCES
Sherlock Holm es
Famous detective character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Christopher's role
model.
Doctor Watson
Companion to Sherlock Holmes and narrator of his stories.
Hound, Jam es Mortim er's spaniel
Dogs that die in the Sherlock Holmes story The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Sir Charles Baskerv ille
Murder victim in the Sherlock Holmes story The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Sir Hugo Baskerv ille, Mrs. Stapleton, Mr. Jam es Mortim er, Sir Henry
Baskerv ille, Selden
Other characters in the Sherlock Holmes story The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Craig F. Whitaker
Submits the Monty Hall Problem to Marilyn Vos Savant's column.
Marily n Vos Sav ant
Person w ith the highest I.Q. in the w orld, according to the Guinness Book of World
Records, she has a column in Parade magazine.
Robert Sachs, Scott Sm ith, Kent Ford, W. Robert Sm ith, E. Ray
Bobo, Ev erett Harm an
Scientists and mathematicians w ho w rongly disagreed w ith Vos
Savant's answ er to the Monty Hall Problem.
Sir Arthur Conan Doy le
The creator of Sherlock Holmes w ho believed in the Cottingley Fairies Hoax and
w rote of it for The Strand.
Frances Griffiths
One of the perpetrators of the Cottingley Fairies Hoax.
Elsie Wright
The other perpetrator of the Cottingley Fairies Hoax and cousin to Frances
Griffiths.
Harold Snelling
Expert in fake photography w ho states the photograph of the Cottingley Fairies
w ere real.
Joe Cooper
Interview ed Elsie W right and Frances Griffiths in 1981, w hen they admitted the
photos w ere faked.
Arthur Shepperson
Author of Princess Mary's Gift Book, used as the basis for the fairies draw n in the
Cottingley Fairies Hoax.
Robert May , George Oster, Jim Yorke
Discovered a mathematical explanation for chaotic animal population fluctuations.
Jam es Gleick
The author of Chaos, a popular science book about chaos theory.
CONFLICT
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time CONFLICT/PROTAGONIST/ANTAGONIST/CLIMAX/OUTCOME/LITERARY FIGURES
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Protagonist
The protagonist of a story is the main character, w ho traditionally, undergoes
some sort of change. He or She must usually overcome some opposing force. In
this story, the protagonist and main character is the narrator Christopher Boone,
w ho w ishes to solve the murder of W ellington and finds another mystery as a
result.
Antagonist
The antagonist of a story is the character that provides an obstacle for the
protagonist. In this novel, the antagonist is the w orld removed from his routine:
that is, the everyday w orld of chaos, disorder, absence. The initiator of chaos is
the murderer of W ellington, a mystery Christopher chooses to solve. This turns
out to be Christopher's father, Ed Boone, w ho brings further turmoil w ith his
deception regarding the death of Christopher's mother.
Climax
The climax of a story is the major turning point that determines the outcome of
the plot. It is the point to w hich the rising action leads. Sometimes, as in this
case, the author w ill create a n explosive and attention grabbing scene for the
climax. Christopher discovers his mother isn't dead, as his father claimed, and
that he killed W ellington.
Outcome
The outcome is also know n as the resolution or denouement, this is the place in
the plot w here the action is resolved or clarified. The outcome of this novel is
unusual. Typically, the protagonist prevails and the antagonist suffers: the good
guy w ins and the bad guy loses. Christopher goes to London to be w ith his
mother and they return to Sw indon, w here his father slow ly regains the trust of
his son.
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