The novel begins with the narrator and protagonist, Christopher Boone, finding Wellington, the dog who is owned by Mrs. Shears his neighbour, dead. He discovers the dog on Mrs. Shears's lawn with a large fork through it. Christopher touches the dog and observes that it is still warm. He asks himself who would do such a thing, and why?
Chapter 3
This is the first in a series of chapters that deter from the novel, giving an insight from Christopher. He proceeds to explains that he has difficulty determining people’s emotion by looking at their facial expressions. Siobhan is first introduced in this chapter and Christopher explains she drew faces on a piece of paper and asked him what emotions the faces were. Christopher could only identify the sad face and the happy face. …show more content…
Shears’s lawn, where Christopher removes the fork and picks up Wellington. Mrs. Shears appears and yells at Christopher to get away from her dog, thinking Christopher killed him. Even when he puts the dog down Mrs Shears continues to yell. So Christopher puts his hands over his head and curls into a ball on the grass, trying to block out the sound.
Chapter 7
Christopher informs the reader in another chapter straying away from the regular formula that we are reading his murder mystery novel, written after Siobhan advised him to try writing a story. It is also mentioned that Christopher has trouble putting events in any order other than the order in which they occurred, explaining that’s why the book started with Willingham’s