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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