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Chapter 2
Christopher John Francis Boone, finds Mrs. Shears (his neighbor's) poodle dead on her lawn. He begins to think who killed the dog and why. -
Chapter 3
Christopher tells us about himself and that he has difficulty differencing people’s emotions from their facial expressions but he can name each country in the world, their capitals, and every prime number up to 1,057. He also tells us how his teacher Siobhan showed him faces so he could identify their expressions but he could only identify the sad one. -
Chapter 5
Christopher picks up Mrs. Shears poodle and hugs him but she came to get him out of her lawn. he gets scared and runs away. -
Chapter 11
Two police officers arrive to the crime scene but after some time they seem to make christofer nervous because they are asking him questions that accused him of the murder. He curls into a ball and hits the police officer. -
Chapter 17
Christopher is arrested for assault. When he is on the car, he thinks about the milky way and feels comforted because of the order of the stars. -
Chapter 7
Christopher tells us that we are reading his real murder mystery novel in a different order than they really happened because he struggled to do that. His teacher told him to write a story that he would like to read so he started the story with the dog’s (wellington) death. -
Chapter 19
Christopher explains the rules of prime numbers. He says that those are very simple and that prime numbers are like life: logical, but difficult to completely comprehend. He says that he wrote the chapters according to prime numbers. -
Chapter 13
Christopher says how words that have multiple meanings confuse him and makes him uncomfortable so he won't write any jokes that's why the story will not be funny. -
Chapter 23
hristopher goes to the station and takes out what was in his pocket. Those are Swiss army knife, a piece of string, and a piece of wooden puzzle. He mentions that the cell is almost like a perfect cube. He was curious if Mrs. Shears lied and told the police that he killed Wellington. -
Chapter 29
Christopher finds people confusing because people sometimes communicate witout using any words: through facial expressions. He says that people also use metaphors. He explains how his name is a metaphor and that he wants his name to mean him. -
Chapter 31
Christopher’s father come to the police station and greets him by holding up his hand with his fingers outspread. Christopher explains that they greet each other this way because he doesn’t like to be hugged. Christopher answers that he didn’t kill the dog and he did hit the policeman. The officer gives him a warning. -
Chapter 37
Christopher explains that he does not tell a lie because it is very confusing to tell what did not really happen. He says that he cannot pick one thing from the infinite number of events that did not happen. Therefore, everything he has written in the book is true.
