The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-relationship?

SPOILER ALERT* In Mark Haddon's book, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, the main character, Christopher, comes across a dead dog which has been impaled on a pitchfork. He vows to...

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Because the story is about a boy who sets out to discover who killed his neighbour's dog with a garden fork.

His relationship with his mother is distant because she left him and his father.

They have an OK relationship, but his dad lied to him a lot and Christopher ends up being scared of his father.