Week 8 post- The Curious Incident of the dog in the Night-Time

So far in novel since last weeks post we learn that Christopher chronicles his investigation in a book—the book we are reading—as part of a school assignment. As Christopher conducts interviews with residents on his block about the crime he uncovers a more tangled plot than was first apparent when he discovers that his father and the owner of the slain dog, Mrs. Shears, had a romantic affair. He subsequently learns that their affair began in reaction to another relationship, one carried on between Mr. Shears and Christopher’s mother, before she disappeared from Christopher’s life. At school Christopher prepares for an A-level math exam that will enable him to attend a university. One afternoon Christopher accidentally leaves his book in plain view on the kitchen table. His father reads it, becomes angry, and confiscates it. While searching for his book he finds 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. When Christopher’s father realizes what has happened, he breaks down in tears. He apologizes for his lies, explaining that he acted out of a desire to protect Christopher from the knowledge of his mother’s abandonment of the family. Christopher’s father also admits to killing Wellington after an argument with Mrs. Shears, his lover. Christopher feeling he can no longer trust his father, sneaks out of the house and travels to London to live with his mother. During a harrowing journey, he copes with and overcomes the social fears and limitations of his condition, dodges police, and almost gets hit by a train. I think he will find his mother next but I am not sure what her reaction will be seeing how she hasn’t seen him in years.