Honesty and trust

Christopher believes that metaphors are lies since they do not reflect actual facts. Further, his name is a metaphor, which means “carrying Christ”. His mother said his name was a nice name because it was a story about being helpful, but Christopher wants his name to mean himself.

Christopher explains that he cannot tell lies because telling lies is illogical. A lie, he reasons, means you say something that happened that didn’t happen, which violates logic since only one thing ever happens at a particular time and place.

The reaction creates an irony in which the reader, unlike Christopher, realizes that the letter suggests Mother never died at all, and that Father has likely been lying about this fact as well.

Christopher feels deeply hurt by the information that he gains from the letters, as evidenced by the strong physical reaction he has. When he realizes that Mother abandoned him and Father to run away with Mr. He appears too shocked to even feel any sense of relief at knowing that Mother is alive.

Christopher, while looking for his book, makes an amazing discovery. He finds letters written to him by his mother, after she supposedly died. He realizes he has been lied to by his father and the truth makes him sick and withdrawn.

When his father arrived home later, his father made several phone calls to locate her and then went out for a few hours. When he returned, he told Christopher that Mother was in the hospital because of a heart problem and that Christopher wouldn’t be able to visit.

At the end of the book, he works to regain this trust, and begins to succeed by giving Christopher a dog.

Christopher believes her dead for two years before finding her letters to him hidden in his father’s cupboard. In fact, Judy couldn’t handle the stress of having Christopher as her son, and thought that Ed was taking better care of him, so she left to live in London with Mr. Shears.

Judy is Christopher’s mother. At the start of the play, Christopher thinks that she died, two years ago after going to hospital. The audience finds out that this is not true when Christopher discovers a number of letters she has sent to him during his investigation of the killing of Wellington the dog.

In chapter 131, Christopher explains why he hates the colours yellow and brown. The reason why he hates brown is that they remind him of dirt, gray and poo. He also tells that one of his teachers, Mrs Forbes, says that hating yellow and brown is stupid. But his mentor Siobhan doesn’t share the opinion of Mrs Forbes.

Chapter 229 While he sleeps, Christopher has one of his “favorite” dreams in which everyone on Earth with a “normal” mind dies, and the only people left are “special like me.” In this world Christopher can go anywhere he chooses without worrying people will talk to him or touch him.

In the dream, Christopher can go anywhere he wants, do whatever he wants, and not have to deal with other people. The whole world is quiet, and he can go into other people’s houses and take whatever he wants from stores.

Since the dream is Christopher’s fantasy, the fact that he identifies this dream as a favorite implies that it fulfills some of his deepest wishes. Significantly, the only people left alive in the dream are people who Christopher says are like him, meaning people with the same condition.

One day after school Father sits Christopher down. Father says Christopher’s trust is more important to him than anything else. To start rebuilding that trust, Father gives Christopher a two-month-old golden retriever.

Red herrings are plot elements that lead the reader to think the story will proceed in one direction when the story actually goes another way. Christopher identifies most with Holmes. Like Holmes, he can focus solely on the task at hand, and to notice obvious things that other people do not observe.

Christopher likes the book because it’s a detective story, including clues and red herrings, which appear to be clues but only lead the detective or the reader off on the wrong track.