Quinn, 

    Everything you say about the "curious incident" is correct and the examples
  you have chosen to discuss are certainly apt for understanding Christopher. 
  But you have really just listed those incidents from the novel without
  going into a lot of detail or depth about the ways Mark Haddon helps 
  to get us into Christopher's mind through those episodes.  

    To give one example, it is certainly true that the Christopher's analysis 
  of the Monty Hall problem shows us that he is very intelligent and has a 
  strong grasp of probability theory as mathematics. But there is another whole 
  deeper layer of what Christopher says in that incident that you don't bring out 
  or take into account.  That deeper level is even more revealing about who 
  Christopher is and how he thinks, so not addressing it really takes away from 
  what you are trying to say.  Recall that this is the evidence Christopher gives 
  for saying that Mr. Jeavons' ideas of why he likes mathematics (that it is 
  "safe" and that are always clear-cut answers at the end, etc.) are really 
  not correct (he says "this is because Mr. Jeavons does not understand numbers" 
  (page 62)).  I think the major point Mark Haddon wanted readers to see in this 
  episode is that Christopher's mind works not intuitively, but always logically.  
  In fact, it's intuition that led the mathematicians who responded to Marilyn 
  vos Savant's column astray.  So Christopher is telling us that he likes 
  mathematics because it can be really complicated (it's not "safe") and you 
  cannot always rely on intuition -- you really need to figure things out 
  carefully.  He's good at that and it sets him apart from most other people. 

    If you like, we could discuss similar deeper analyses of each of the 
  episodes you mention.  Please come to my office hours if you would 
  like to do that.  I think you're really only scratching the surface.

    Your writing is generally very clear and direct.  Two small comments:  In your 
  sentence on page 2:  "The point of view from which the story is told, greatly 
  aids the reader in understanding whom Christopher really is" -- the comma is not 
  correct and "whom" should be "who".  You're right that it is very important 
  that the novel is told with Christopher as a first-person narrator.  We get 
  to know him in part because Mark Haddon has done such a good job of creating 
  a believable voice for him.  

  Content: 85 (B)

  Mechanics: 95 (A)