The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is told through the eyes of a fifteen-year-old boy named Christopher Boone. Christopher has a high-functioning form of autism that allows him to understand complex mathematical problems, but also leaves him unable to understand many simple human emotions. His inability to understand metaphors, distinguish emotions, and his lack of imagination make it possible to consider Christopher as a computer rather than a human being. Throughout the story, Christopher faces many challenges which he overcomes by using the stable and constantly changing mathematical system. All of these factors suggest that Christopher does, in fact, function like a computer, but it is evident from the beginning of the story that Christopher, regardless of anything else, is capable of independent thought that separates him from the programmed, dependent world of computers. The book begins as a mystery novel with the goal of finding the killer of the neighbor's dog, Wellington. The mystery of the dog is solved halfway through the book and the story shifts towards the Boone family. Through a series of events we learn that Christopher was lied to for the last two years of his life. Christopher's father told him that his mother had died in hospital. She actually moved to London to start a new life because she couldn't handle her fussy baby. With this discovery, Christopher's absolute world is turned upside down and his faith in his father is destroyed. Christopher, a child who has never traveled alone beyond school, leaves his home to travel across the country to find his mother who lives in London. In the comparison between...... half of the paper. .....although Christopher functions more like a computer than a human, but he possesses the ability to think independently, which above all is a human characteristic. No machine can function efficiently without receiving instructions and following precise orders. Christopher also needs to be told exactly what to do because the vagueness of common phrases confuses him, but he knows that people break the rules and he also knows that he can make decisions for himself. On his journey to find his mother, Christopher decides to break all his rules to find her. He is able to go to London against almost all odds, and he does so by stepping out of his comfort zone and into a world of uncertainty. Even though he uses computerized thinking to come to the conclusion to go to his mother, it is his underlying human qualities that make the journey possible..