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In the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Hadden the main character, Christopher Boone, exhibits the personality trait of anxiety. In the story the anxious Christopher Boone finds a dog dead in his neighbor's lawn. He wants to find out who the murderer is and during his investigation he finds out that his mother has not been dead for two years and that his own father killed the dog. There are many things that make him anxious such as changes in his environment, things that have rules that are not followed, specific colors, and being touched.
Christopher gets anxious because of changes in his environment, such changes include when he meets new people, his furniture is moved, and he has to use an unknown bathroom. Christopher always gets frightened when he meets, sees, or has to talk to new people. An example of this is, "It takes me a long time to get used to people I don't know. For example, when there is a new member of staff at school I do not talk......

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