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The discovery of Wellington
Christopher Boone, a 15 year old boy with asperger's syndrome, found the dog of his neighbor Mrs Shears dead on the garden. The dog Wellington had been stabbed though with a garden fork. -
The incident with the Police
Christopher had pulled the fork out of the dog and hugged him. Mrs Shear went out into her yard he saw him hugging the dog and started screaming at Christopher. She then called the police. The policeman grabbed him by the arm and as he didn't like this he hit him and was then arrested for aussulting a police officer. His father arrived then to the station and when he saw Christopher he held up his right had and spread his fingers out as a way to say, i love you ,they did this instead of hugging. -
The novel and the mystery
Siobhan a friend of his told him that he should write a book. So he decided he would write a murder mystery novel, so he went around the neighborhood in search of suspects in order to solve Wellington's murder. And that is where he met Mrs. Alexander who helped him. And at the top of the suspect list was Mr Shear. -
The mother
Christopher's mom dies in the hospital two years ago from a heart attack after being two weeks in there. And mrs Shear came to take care of them. -
The five rules
As Christopher's father had seen him trying to solve the murder of Wellington he made him promise these five things:
1. Not to mention Mrs Shears name in the house.
2. Not to go asking Mrs Shear about who had killed the bloody dog.
3. Not to go asking anyone who killed the dog.
4. Not to go trespassing in other people's gardens.
5. To stop the ridiculous detective game. -
Father gets mad at Christopher
One day while walking down the street Christopher meets with Mrs Alexander, after talking to her for some time she confesses that Christopher's mother had been is a relationship with Mr Shear while both of them were married. He the writes all of this in the novel that he had been working on, along with his suspicions on the murderer. His father sees the draft of the book of the table, reads it and gets mad at him and hits him then throws the book away. -
The recovery of the book
After his father throws his book into the bin Christopher wants his book back. He realizes it is not there so he turns the hole house upside down in order to find his book. He then goes into his father's room and ends up finding it in an old cardboard box in which shirts come in. But he didn't take it, as his father had just arrived to the house. In the process of this he found a stalk of letters hidden which were all addressed to him, Christopher. He rapidly took one of them and hid it. -
Christopher rears the letter
He starts reading the letter and there realizes its from his mother, but the letter was written 18 months after she died. In the letter she is telling him that she has moved to a new apartment in London with her boyfriend and in now working as a secretary for a factory that makes thing out of steel. -
More letters
After six days went passed Christopher went back into his father's room and read four more letters from his mother to him. He didn't finished reading the last one because he felt sick as if his room was swinging from side to side, he couldn't remember what had happened moments after. Father came into the room and tried to explain what he had done, he was very ashamed, he cleans up Christopher as he had thrown up. -
The murderer of the dog is revealed
Later that day Father confessed to have killed the dog. He did this because he was very angry because he said that Mrs Shear gave more attention to the dog than to him and his son, so as a kind of revenge, he killed Wellington. Christopher no longer trusts his father and feels like if he was capable of killing Wellington he might as well kill him too. He gets out of the house and decides he will now go to live with his mother in London. -
He travels to London
Christopher gets a couple of things from the house, including his fathers credit card and heads for the train station. Once there a police man helps him, while trying to convince him to go back to talk with his father. He then gets in the train and so does the policeman. Christopher goes to the bathroom and hides were the luggage is supposed to go in. The policeman gives up on his search for Christopher and gets off the train. The boy arrives to London. -
Once in London
When he arrives to London he follows the advice on what to do from a lot of people until he ends up on the subway. There Toby, his pet, fell onto the tracks and he got in to get him. Christopher was then rescued by a man that worked there. After that he managed to get to were his mother lived, but there was no one there, he then waits. -
Christopher with his mother
When his mother comes home she is very surprised and very happy that after all those years she could see her son again. She welcomes him with open doors and takes him in as he had o where to go. His mothers boyfriend id Mr Shear, which is not as happy to see Christopher. The boy ends up telling her that father had told him that she was dead. -
The arrival of his father
On night Christopher goes back to sleep and he wakes up to his father shouting at his mother, he then enters to his room and tries to apologize to him but Christopher doesn't want anything to do with him. He wants his parents to get back togather. -
The end
Christopher ends up going to Swindon because he wanted to take the class maths A level which his mother a some problems with, since it meant to go back to his father. This is really important to him and means a lot that his mother let him go. He did the test and got an A, he also finished writing his book. He feels very proud of his accomplishments (solving the mystery, finding his mother, getting an A on his test, etc) and this makes him feel like now he can do anything.
