Judy Boone Character Traits

In trying to find out who murdered Wellington, Christopher uncovers a box containing letters from his mother addressed to him. Prior to this incident, Christopher’s father, Mr. Boone, told him that his mother passed away due to a heart attack while in the hospital. In addition, Christopher was unable to visit her. The date of the supposed death did not match up with the recent inscription on the letters, indicating his father lying about her death. Mr. Boone soon finds out about Christopher’s discovery, struggling to explain the situation: “I did it for your good, Christopher. Honestly, I did. I never meant to lie...I just thought

Ed shows a lot of helpfulness to everyone and especially Christopher. This is what lets Ed be so good with Christopher, patience lets Ed be

Ed also seeks love within his Mother and for her to accept him as her son. After the Clown Street message and the heavy discussion with his mother, Ed gains an understanding of why their relationship is so broken. This leads ED into a better situation with his mother and overall the love he has been asking and craving for from his mother, even if its not the traditional love we would expect between a mother and son. “My heart is so tired”, Ed says to himself after trying and trying to win over Audrey, this quote shows us how much Ed has tried and tried to love but Audrey wouldn’t except it.

“Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of the dynamic and creative intellectual activity”.- (John F. Kennedy). This focus on mental capacity and dynamism is clearly seen through Christopher Boone's character in Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon. Diagnosed with autism, Christopher is a very unpredictable character who grows dynamically throughout the novel. The emphasis on Christopher’s various abilities highlights his different skills rather than fixating on the fact that he is on the autism spectrum. Christopher’s personality signifies his unique character as well as being able to do many things beyond readers imaginations. In Haddon’s Curious Incident of

Ritchie wasted his life away; Marv had been saving money for ‘someone’ he had yet to meet in life; and Audrey was a serial monogamist who largely had feelings for Ed, but not in an explicit way. At this moment, Ed now has developed his sense of compassion and benevolence, so he now has a desire to help others. Ed see Ritchie at home with ‘nothing to do.’ When Ritchie and Ed go down to the river, Ritchie is slightly pressed on by Ed to talk about his problems; he explains that he feels lost in life and so he wants ‘to want’, meaning he wants to have a life full of prospects and possibilities, unlike his life now. Subsequently, he starts looking for a job, indicating a change to Ritchie’s negative perspective of himself.

Nothing", furthermore illustrates the constant degrading of himself that he allowed. The utilisation of repetition is applied to emphasise the protagonists sense of despair. However, as the story progresses we see the transformation of Ed Kennedy. After his interaction with Audrey, Ed reflects on what transpired. " maybe I truly am shedding the old Ed Kennedy for this new person who’s full of purpose

In the novel, The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time by Mark Haddon, the elements of Character of Father, the Aha-Moment of Christopher and the Conflict develops the theme when in making an effort to heal a relationship, one must be truthful in order to show a sense of trust and value to the person. Firstly, the Character of Father helps us to understand a level of effort he puts in trying to fix his relationship with Christopher. Father says “ And, um… I’ve got you a present. To show you that I really mean what I say. And to say sorry (Hadden 219), the quotation gives us a perspective that Ed really care for his son and that the golden retriever symbolizes a peace offering between them. However, he also shows effort in the relationship

Christopher took the tube in London and managed to find his way to his mother. Without Ed’s lie, Christopher would have never been able to learn as much as he did.

Christopher didn’t open the envelopes because he is scared to find out what are in the envelopes. He realizes that nothing good is going to come from opening the letters when his dad is home so he postpones opening the letter until he has time to be alone and find out the truth for himself. Ed has hidden the letters from Christopher because he is afraid that the only person who truly loves him and the only person he has would leave him and want to live with someone else. He definitely feels guilty for hiding the letters from Chris but not guilty enough to admit the

Though Ellen at this point has lost hope in George she knows she must keep going if she wants to have the family, husband, and house she imagines of. So that's exactly what Ellen did she pushed on and eventually married John whom she had five children with. I feel that she eventually built that "hope" back up. Though once again Ellen loses more hope, upon the death of her husband, John. I feel that at first this definitely "kills" her, but she knows she must keep going, she must continue to raise her children. Her hopes are crushed once more upon the death of Hapsy, her favorite child, during childbirth. So when it is finally nearing Ellen's death and Cornelia says she will see Hapsy again, she doesn't believe it, at this point she has lost hope in life, she has prepared to die and this is the end. I feel that these losses of hope shape her life by pulling her down though she is determined to have a successful family so she fights on. Though when it comes to her death she has simply appeared to give up the fight and loose hope in the future and her life. From personal experience, I understand Ellen's loss of hope and the feeling that it's not worth it anymore though just like her I continue to

On page 107, she wrote about her arguments with Ed and said: “We had a lot of arguments … And by the end we stopped talking to each other very much because we knew it would always end up in an argument and it would go nowhere. And I felt really lonely.” It was this feeling that also contributed to her agreeing to leave with Mr. Shears on page 109. On page 193, Judy also proved that she missed Christopher a lot when she asked him why he never wrote her.

Trust is something that is built over time but can be broken in a matter of seconds. Christopher and his father have a very tempestuous relationship that changes over the course of the novel. In the novel, the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon Christopher's father tries to regain Christopher’s love and trust after he loses it, due to a number of problems that he causes while trying to protect his son that he loves very much. Christopher John Francis Boone, the protagonist, struggles to figure out what his feelings are towards his father as he tries to forgive him for the problems he has caused in his life. Throughout the novel, their trust is tested, as they try to conquer different obstacles that are a result of

In the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, by Mark Haddon, Ed Boone is the father of a brilliant boy, Christopher, who has signs of autism or a similar disorder which makes him very particular, and have extremely rigid standards. Ed constantly overworks himself to please Christopher, and make his son feel as comfortable as possible even though Christopher never thanks him. A similar idea is expressed in “Those Winter Sundays”, by Robert Hayden, where a boy reflects on all his father has done for him even though he and his family never acknowledged all of the effort and labor his father put into making them happy, healthy, and free from these labors. Both the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime and “Those Winter Sundays” suggest that a parent will go to great lengths for their children's prosperity and comfort even if their children never say thank you.

These short and simple paragraphs convey Christopher’s thoughts and opinions towards his mother’s death. However, strangely there is no emotions conveyed in this passage which suggests that Christopher has a very different way of thinking and processing events to a ‘normal’ person. He did not seem to be upset with the loss of his mother at all.

Unlike Ed, her “hot tempered” nature and her inability to empathise with her son, has meant that she is unable to adapt to the demands of Christopher’s social barriers. This is evident in a letter in chapter 157 where she states “ Maybe if things had been differant, maybe if you'd been differant i might have been better at it. But thats just the way things turned out”. The repetition of ‘maybe’ demonstrates the initial complexity of human communication which in Christophers case, was further complicated by his social demands. Through Mark Haddon’s incorporation of a letter in this chapter, the difficulties in human communication is shown as his mother has resorted to indirect communication in explaining her reasoning for his abandonment. Although Judy lovingly and diligently cares for Christopher she struggles with the frustration she feels as a result of not always being able to understand her son’s behaviour. This ideology is further reiterated through the comparison in the letter between Ed and Judy seen in “Your father is a much more pacient person. He just gets on with things.. But that’s not the way i am…” Haddon’s characterisation of Christopher’s parents presents to the responder the conflicting side of love, the multi-faceted and complicated nature of human interaction, and the opposing approaches of both parents in communicating and dealing with Christopher’s condition, as part of their