![]() ![]() The protagonist cannot comprehend his father’s distress after picking up his son from the police station. ![]() When Christopher’s father was “sitting on the sofa watching snooker on the television and drinking scotch, there were tears coming out of his eyes” (21). He has trouble picking up and understanding his father’s emotions from time to time, tending to only understand himself. When he does “not know what someone is saying, them what they mean or away” (3), and odd, but normal behavior to him. He “find people confusing” (14) because he has trouble reading people’s facial expressions to understand their emotions. In addition, he never responds to statements, only questions. These behaviors are not normal for a fifteen-year-old boy. It makes him feel uneasy and uncomfortable. He “does not like hugging people” (16), even his own parents. When the police officer tried to remove his watch “ screamed” (13), a behavior uncharacteristic of a teenager. Some of his behavioral problems include “not talking to people for a long time, not eating or drinking anything for a long time, not liking being touched, screaming when angry or confused, and not liking yellow things or brown things” (46). ![]() ![]() The protagonist clearly has a mental and behavioral disorder, which cause him to have many eccentricities. Christopher John Francis Boone from Swindon is a unique, yet genuine, honest, and innocent individual. ![]()
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