Response Number One

So far I like this book. I like how the author puts the reader in the mind of Christopher. I noticed that he is very sporadic in his thought patterns but that is what makes it interesting.

The book is about a fifteen year old boy named Christopher John Francis Boone, we come into his life when he finds a dog murdered with a pitch fork, because of his love for animals Christopher is determined to find the culprit. I could tell that something seemed off with Christopher, I began to notice this when he was trying to determine emotions through pictures of faces that his friend Siobhan drew to help him. He automatically knew happy and sad but when the expressions became more complex he began to struggle with interpretation. I thought that he had a social impairment mixed with an attention disorder, later I found out that he was autistic. This became evident when he was found with the dogs dead body. He was clutching it and mourning the death of his friend when the police officer came to question him. Because Christopher felt uncomfortable with the closeness of the officer he hit him to get him away and then was arrested for assaulting a police officer. Once he was put in his cell he felt more comfortable because it was what he had seen in movies.

Later in the chapter Christopher's father picked him up from the station. I thought the way they expressed love for each other was so sweet, because Chris doesn't like to be touched his father came up of a way to hug him without much physical contact. They spread their fingers into a fan and touch the pads of their fingers together.

One person Christopher seemed extremely close to was his mother. He often thinks about her and showed that he deeply cared for her when she was hospitalized, even thought he appeared to be aloof to the situation. Later in the book the audience finds out that his mother was unfaithful to his father from a woman named Ms. Andrews. It was extremely difficult to understand how he felt about this. All he did was promise not to tell and walked home. I feel like he knows that it is socially inappropriate but doesn't seem to care.