When Christopher returns home, Ed is very angry with him for continuing to investigate Wellington’s death, and he makes Christopher promise to stop. Shears should be his prime suspect in the murder, because he left his wife, so he probably hated Mrs. She engages him in conversation and offers him refreshments, but when she goes inside to get them, Christopher decides she might actually be calling the police, so he leaves.
The first few people he talks to don’t have any information for him and advise him to discontinue his investigation. The following day, Christopher decides to interrogate the other neighbors on his street, even though he doesn’t like talking to strangers. He snoops in her garden shed and sees a pitchfork that looks like the one that killed Wellington. Shears’s house and asks if she knows who killed Wellington, but she shuts the door in his face. Although his father has told him to stay out of other people’s business, Christopher decides to disobey because Ed’s instructions are too vague. The next day, Christopher’s teacher, Siobhan, has him write a story, so he begins to write the story that becomes the novel. Later that night, Christopher finds his father crying in the kitchen. Ed gets angry and tells him not to pursue Wellington’s death. On the drive home, Christopher decides that he’s going to figure out who killed the dog, Wellington. An inspector questions Christopher and gives him a caution, which means that he’ll receive a punishment if he gets into trouble again. The police call his father, Ed, who arrives angry at the police, but not at Christopher. Christopher makes it clear to his reader that he experiences the world differently than other people, and doesn’t understand human interaction very well.Īt the police station, Christopher is put in a cell. The policeman arrests him and brings him to the station. When they arrive, they overwhelm Christopher with their questions, and when a policeman touches him roughly, Christopher responds by hitting him.
Shears, the neighbor who owns the dog, calls the police. The novel opens with the young narrator, Christopher John Francis Boone, discovering his neighbor’s dog dead in her yard, murdered with a pitchfork.
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