PART 5 - timeline

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- a tube of Smarties → a pencil experiment (Julie, at school)
- a TV series How the MInd Works

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- Father cleans Christopher and they sit on the bed, quiet, for a long time
- Father then admits that he’s killed Wellington
- Christopher becomes really afraid of his father
- Christopher goes out and squeezes into a gap between a garden shed and a wall to think what to do next
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- about the constellation ORION and other stars
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- Christopher falls asleep
- Father comes out and calls Christopher a lot
- when he doesn’t find him, he starts an engine of his van and goes away
- Christopher decides to leave home and go to live with Mrs Shears → she’s not home
- after some thinking, Christopher decides to find his mother in London
- goes to Mrs Alexander to ask her to look after Toby, his rat → she asks too many questions, so he leaves
- packs a few things from home and leaves for London
- goes to school first to ask Siobhan how to get to the train station→ sees his father’s van → vomits again→ decides to ask sb the way ( a lady with 2 children) → finds the station
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- “I notice everything.”
- This is very tiring for him (in a situation where ordinary people would notice approx. 5 things, he notices approx. 40.
End of part 5