What Is Christopher's Actions When Acting On Action

Christopher's actions when acting on impulse drives the plot of the story majorly. The first place we see Christopher's actions drive the plot is when Christopher finds Wellington the poodle belonging to Mrs. Shears, his neighbor, dead on Mrs. Shear’s lawn with a garden fork through its side. Christopher touches the dog’s muzzle and observes that it is still warm. Automatically, he wonders who killed Wellington, and why. Acting on impulse, Christopher removed the garden fork and picked up Wellington. Mrs. Shears appeared on her patio and yelled at Christopher to get away from her dog. This sent Christopher into his detective mode as he investigates the murder of Wellington. Acting on impulse, again, he decided to write a book about his journey
Once his father comes home from work he reads it, becomes angry, and confiscates it. Christopher, scared and in a panic to find his book starts to raid the house while his father isn't in the residence, without planning in advance. Mark Haddon shows that Christopher acted on the spur of the moment by talking about everywhere he searched for his book before taking a step back and thinking about his actions, “Then I detected in the utility room. Then I detected in the dining room. Then I detected in the living room...Then I went upstairs, but I didn't do any detecting in my own room...I detected in the bathroom...Which meant that the only room left to detect inn was father's room” (Haddon 92). After acting on instinct Christopher These actions drive the plot majorly because through all his detecting he uncovers a series of letters, hidden in a shirt box in his father’s closet, addressed to him from his supposedly dead mother. The letters chronicle a life that his mother has continued to lead with Mr. Shears in London and contain repeated requests for Christopher to respond. In shock, Christopher passes out in his bedroom surrounded by the evidence of his father’s deception. When Father comes home and realizes what has happened, he breaks down in tears. He apologizes for his lies, explaining that he acted out of
Though Father never says so explicitly, he appears to have wanted Christopher to drop the investigation so that Christopher wouldn’t find out about the affair. This information casts a new light on Father’s earlier instruction to Christopher to cease the investigation. Father, we can see, appears not to have worried so much about Christopher digging up other people’s business as much as he worried about Christopher digging up the secrets he was keeping himself, suggesting that if this secret comes out it will have serious