Back at home, Christopher searches the house for his book and finds it hidden in his father’s bedroom. On Monday at school, Siobhan sees the bruise on Christopher’s face and asks if he’s afraid of his father, but he says no. Remorseful, his father apologizes to Christopher and treats him to a weekend trip to the zoo. Regaining consciousness, he sees his father removing the journal. He grabs Christopher, who hates being held, and a fistfight erupts Christopher gets knocked out. His father finds and reads Christopher’s journal and becomes angry that Christopher has broken his promise. Shears had an affair with Christopher’s mother. He learns from a neighbor, the elderly Mrs. His father explained at the time that she died from a heart attack in the hospital.Ĭhristopher reasons that his promise not to investigate contains loopholes quietly he continues his detecting. Christopher also writes that, two years earlier, his mother disappeared. Christopher describes his techniques for getting along with others despite his inability to read faces or understand the highly metaphorical language that most people use. It includes an account of his investigation, his experiences at school and home, and random thoughts about math, science, Sherlock Holmes, and the strangeness of people. One of Christopher’s teachers, Siobhan, suggests he write about his experiences, and he begins keeping a journal, which becomes the novel. His father makes Christopher promise to stop investigating.Ĭhristopher is determined to take the A-level math exams, which will help him get into college, and his father arranges it. In the ensuing days, he visits the neighbors, asking if anyone knows anything about the killing. Christopher decides to solve the mystery of the dog’s murder.
Christopher’s father bails him out and brings him home. The officers arrest him and take him to a police station holding cell.
Shears, calls the police, who arrive and question Christopher, who curls into a ball on the lawn when one of them tries to lift him, Christopher strikes the officer. Fifteen-year-old Christopher Boone, out walking in his Swindon, England neighborhood late one night, discovers a poodle dead on its front lawn, impaled on a garden fork.
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