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The day of the week that Siobhan talked to Christopher about his fight
Christopher used these to help him search for his book
What is Mag-Lite torch and a piece of mirror?
What Christopher wanted to eat
What is baked beans and broccoli?
The place Judy live now
Where is London?
the place his mother lives now
Where is London
The first place Christopher searched for his book
What is the top of the cupboards
The person whom Christopher thought was his father
Who are the drug people next door?
The street which Christopher lives on
What is 36 Randolph Street
The amount of time that passed from the first letter to Judy's supposed death
How long is 18 months?
Where Christopher hid his letter?
Under the bed :|
Why does Christopher not want his book to be thrown away?
Because the book had all the clues to who killed Wellington and because writing a book is a challenge which Christopher likes.
What did Christopher do so that his father wouldn't get any clues that he was detecting?
He took off his shoes to avoid dirty footprints and to avoid suspicion if Ed did any detecting of his own.
Which teachers taught Christopher life skills and which ones?
"We did Life Skills with Mrs. Gray. Which was Using Money and Public Transport"
What is Fried Bread?
Why does Christopher stop thinking about the letter despite it being such a strange new discovery?
Because he might leap to wrong conclusions
Throughout his chapter, Christopher calls his parents ”Father” and “Mother”. You only capitalize names, but he capitalizes “Father” Why does Christopher do this? How does this action show Christopher’s understanding of kinship?
He calls them by what they are but has no feelings for them because “father” is just who they are to Christopher. Father is more like a name to him than who he is.
Christopher acknowledged to us that his father told him not to mess with the things in his room. How does this foreshadow that something was hiding in his room? What is the effect of this on the reader? Is this like dramatic Irony?
The reader would detect that something is wrong and instantly know that when his father didn't want Christopher to go in his room, then there is definitely something hiding in there.
Why does Christopher want to find his old book even when he later mentions that he remembers what he wrote? What does this show about his current relationship with Ed Boone and Christopher’s personality?
Christopher wants to find his old book because of many reasons. An example is when he said he enjoys the hard challenge of finding something so small. The main drive was the sense of betrayal when his father had taken something so personal to him. Throughout the book, it has been implied that Christopher is very protective of his personal belongings like how he keeps a stash of food that only he could touch.
How does Christopher’s misunderstanding of the letters, thinking that there was another “Christopher” and another “Christopher’s mother” that wrote the letters, show about his relationship with his father?
His misunderstanding shows that his bond with his father, despite the recent fight, is still strong as Christopher still strongly believes that his mother had died and his explanation of the letters clearly shows that. He would rather blame the letters on some far-reaching theories rather than question the current pieces of information that are given by his father. Christopher also thinks that his father won’t do anything like that to him.
When Ed Boone was going through the Mail, why might Christopher state details about what his father is doing instead of just saying ”he was distracted”? How might this affect the way the reader feels in this tense moment?
Christopher first talks about the mail and what his father is doing very descriptively because he focuses on the present and observes most if not all of what is happening and he can’t help describing what his father is doing instead of just seeing his father isn’t looking for him and running to his room. This will remind the reader that even in these climactic moments, Christopher is still Christopher, that even though he had just done something so big, he is still his old self, that he hasn’t changed.
At the start of the chapter, Christopher and Siobhan's conversation was a paragraph instead of the dialogue form that appears in other parts of the book and even in this chapter. Why might he specifically model that conversation in paragraph form?
Even though Christopher seems mostly confused about what had happened and forgot lots of the details because he was upset, it is obvious to him that his father had almost abused him. He modelled the conversation like this because he was unhappy and nervous thinking about that night and was uncomfortable with talking about it making him feel threatened.
During Christopher’s search for his book, he mentions how he “detects” certain rooms but never states specifically that the book is not in that room. Why might he not say that? Think about his logic and predictions towards people.
He does not say that because he is not completely sure that the book is not in that room. To him, he might think that Ed might’ve hidden it in the walls or put it in a precarious place in the exact room.
When Christopher found the letter, he could just said that the letter was addressed to him, instead he formatted it in a proper mailing format and copied the entire letter word for word. Why would he do this instead of just summarizing the letter contents and/or ignoring the mailing format? What is the effect on the reader?
Christopher does this because to him writing a book is not like writing a book as a regular person would think of, the book for him is like a videotape, he puts whatever he sees on there. The effect of this is that the puts the reader in his position, like we are just behind him, reading the letter with him.
Christopher bolds or Italics book names which are usual, but Christopher also italicized or bolded other things like measurements which do not need to be emphasized. Why might Christopher do this? What effect does this have on the reader?
Christopher bolds and Italics some things like measurements and other things like what he learned. This gives the effect that it is so important. When he bolded the measurements I kept thinking with him to find the 25 x 35 x 1 book, it was almost like I was finding it with Christopher. Christopher might do this because he only italics books, but when it comes to magazines, it is bolded. This is probably because magazine titles are all bolded and fancy, so he puts whatever he sees down in the book, and since the title is big and bolded, he wrote what it was like in his book.
In the letter that Christopher’s mother wrote to him, she said that they moved into this new flat, she didn’t like the place and liked the previous home better, but she stayed because it was easier for Mr.Shears to get to work. How does this show Christopher’s mother’s true personality? Would this change the mind of the reader thinking that his mother is an evil woman who left them?
Christopher's mother is known for leaving Christopher’s father and Christopher. In the letter, it shows that his mother is a very soft-hearted person and very kind that thinks for others. She doesn’t like the place but because it was easier for Mr.Shears to get to work, she still agreed with it. Christopher’s mother to begin with was a very kind woman, who tried to care for Christopher, but everything was too hard for her and she couldn’t get any support from her husband.