Journal #1 (1 - 56)

 The book starts off in the perspective of Christopher, a 15 year old autistic boy, who is looking at Wellington (Mrs.Shears dog) dead on her lawn. Christopher just sits there with Wellington until Mrs.Shears sees him and runs out of her house yelling and cursing. She then calls the police, when the police arrive he tries to talk to Christopher but Christopher gets overwhelmed with questions. The police officer tries to pick Christopher up because Christopher decided to lay down so Christopher hits him because he does not like being picked up. This makes Christopher get arrested so he gets taken down to the police station. Christopher's dad eventually comes to get him. After he is released Christopher decides he is going to find who killed Wellington even though his dad doesn't want him too. He then proceeds to go around the block asking people questions about Wellington's death. In the end of him walking around he decides the prime suspect is Mr. Shears. I think Christopher is very intelligent and thinks logically. He already knows quiet a few facts about murder and other interesting things. Another thing about Christopher is he loves math and science, though he has trouble with human emotions and facial expressions. Christopher's mother has passed away, he talkes about it quiet a bit but doesn't really say how he feels about it, he says how his dad feels and reacts but not his own emotions. Though you can see Christopher is very smart he doesn't seem to have much of an imagination, in his eyes everything must be logical. That is why so far this book has been very intresting and different.