3egc/4egcs - PART 1 - timeline

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- the dog is dead on the lawn, in front of Mrs Shers’ house (Wellington, a poodle), killed with a garden fork
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- Christopher introduces himself: Christopher Francis Boone (15 years, 3 months and 2 days old)
- he tells about Siobhan ☺
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- he holds the dog for 4 minutes
- Mrs Shears comes and thinks he’s killed it
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- he explains about this novel (=a murder mystery novel) → The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes)
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- the police arrive
- a policeman questions Christopher → too many questions → Christopher panics and hits him
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- Christopher explains that this won’t be a funny book → he doesn’t understand jokes
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- Christopher is arrested → it calms (!) him
- he explains about the Milky Way, the stars, the Big Bang, the universe expanding
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- Christopher explains how chapters are marked with prime numbers: “Prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.”
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- Christopher gets to the police station
- has to empty his pockets (exact description)
- gets to his cell → a perfect cube (exact description)→ nice
- wonders how he’d escape (using glasses to set fire)
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- Christopher explains why he finds people confusing (”people do a lot of talking without using any words”)
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- Father arrives
- Christopher sees him (he doesn’t like hugging people → they spread their fingers out in a fan)
- Christopher is interviewed (he always tells the truth)
- they drive home

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- “I do not tell lies” – Christopher explains he CAN’T tell lies
- he mentions his mother
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- on the way home Christopher apologizes to his father
- says he wants fo find Wellington’s murderer → the father is angry
- goes to his room to play some computer games
- returns to the kitchen, sees his father crying
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- Christopher tells us that his mother died 2 years ago (comes from school, she’s not there, the father tells him she’s in the hospital)

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- on his way to school in the bus they pass 4 red cars = a Good Day (he explains why)
- tells about his conversation with Mr Jeavons (about becoming an astronaut)
- Terry – a bully
- Siobhan encourages Christopher to write a story about Wellington (he’s telling it 2 years after these events?)
End of part 1