What makes christopher boone feel safe

Christopher's father tells him to leave the death of the dog alone, but Christopher can't leave it alone. The next day on the way to school he sees four red cars in a row, which means it will be a Good Day. Christopher has a way of telling if a day is Good or Bad.

If he sees four red cars in a row, then it is going to be a Good Day, three red cars a Quite Good Day, five red cars a Super Good Day and four yellow cars a Black Day, which is a day he doesn't speak to anyone. Because it is a Good Day, he decides he should try to find out who killed Wellington, the dog. His teacher's aide, Siobhan, tells him the assignment that day is to write stories, so he should write about finding the dog and his trip to the police station.

Christopher thinks this is a great idea and expands on the idea by deciding to write a mystery novel about finding Wellington's killer. Siobhan offers to help Christopher by correcting the grammar and spelling in his novel. Siobhan has known Christopher for eight years and always tries to help him navigate the world around him. Since he has difficulty deciphering the meaning of facial expressions, she draws many different expressions on a piece of paper and writes what each expression means.

This is somewhat helpful to Christopher, but people's expressions often change too quickly for him to find the correct one on the paper.

Christopher also has trouble with the usage of metaphors and jokes. To learn his father killed the dog, because he was angry with Mrs. Shears for not moving in with him, means to Christopher that the next time he makes his father angry, he might kill him.

He decides to leave the house that night. He spends the night hiding behind their garden shed, then he decides to make the trip to London.

He wants to go there to live with his mother. A project we have to do together. You have to spend more time with me.

And I I have to show you that you can trust me. He proposes that they spend at first one minute a day together. He wants them to increase the time spent together gradually day by day, until Christopher learns to trust his father again.

Christopher, until this point, has not spoken to his father or stayed in the same room with him alone, since he ran away from home. Now his father is proposing they start talking and trusting each other again. And I found my mother and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything. He now realizes he can achieve his dream of becoming a scientist. He acknowledges it makes him feel safe. He says Father puts his trousers on before his socks every morning because it is his order, not because of logic.

Christopher recalls that Mother died two weeks after going into hospital. He never saw her there, but Father said that she sent lots of love and had his get-well card on her bedside table before she had an unexpected heart attack. Her death surprised Christopher because she had lived an active and healthy life and was only thirty-eight years old. On the night she died, Mrs. Shears came over and held Father against her chest to comfort him.

She also cooked dinner, and afterward Christopher beat her in Scrabble. He knocks on Mrs. Shears, however, closes the door in his face. Christopher walks back down the sidewalk, and he can see Mrs. He waits until she leaves, then sneaks around the side of her house and jumps the garden wall. In the garden he finds a locked shed.

He explains how upset he was when Mother left him. Shears he and Mrs. Shears got close. To Christopher, honesty has primacy. He depends on people telling him the truth to enable him to establish trust with them emotionally. Yet Christopher needs to live in the real world, a world in which truth is neither black nor white. At the end of the book, he works to regain this trust, and begins to succeed by giving Christopher a dog. After a minute, Father goes into the kitchen, and then out into the garden, where Christopher can hear him drop the book into the trashcan.

When Father comes back into the kitchen, he locks the back door and hides the key to it in a china pot. Chew on This. Christopher feels love through his connections to animals — particularly to his dog Sandy. As Christopher admits in his conversation with Mr. Jeavons, order makes him feel safe, even when that order is not logical.

The next day Christopher sees four yellow cars in a row on his way to school, making it a Black Day. The next day he sees four yellow cars again.