PART 8 - timeline

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- Christopher’s favourite dream → a virus is spread, only ‘special’ people like him survive
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- Christopher has breakfast, Mr Shears thinks he can stay just for a while, Mother disagrees
- they try and go shopping → very crowded, Christopher has an attack
- Christopher goes onto the balcony to see some stars; he can’t fall asleep
- Christopher goes into Chapter Road → hides there → Mother angry when she finds him
- Mother loses her job
- Christopher wants to go to Swindon to take his A level → Mother doesn’t want to take him
- Mother takes him to watch the planes taking off and landing and tells him she has postponed his exam until the next year → Christopher screams
- Mr Shears comes to Christopher’s room after he’s been drinking and yells at him
- when he leaves the flat, Mother packs her things and they leave
- they get to Swindon → Father moves out
- Christopher still wants to do his A level
- Mother takes him to school and Siobhan arranges for him to take A level
- Father comes to the house to ask Christopher how it went at the exam
- Mother gets a job, they move out of the house to a small room (no toilet!)
- Christopher helps Mother paint their room but doesn’t let her wash his hair
- because Mother works late, Christopher has to wait for her in Father’s house – he doesn’t like that
- Father tries to talk to him, but Christopher ignores him
- Toby dies (2 years and 7 months old)
- Father gives Christopher a puppy – a Golden Retriever as a present
- Christopher gets an A grade for his exam
- Mother gets flu and Christopher has to stay with Father for 3 days but he is not afraid so much any more because he has Sandy now
- Christopher plans to take A level further maths next year and A level physics and then go to university and become a scientist