Journal #3

(Pg 112-168) Christopher had begun to read more letters from his mother when his dad was away at work. He counted 43 letters in totaled and these were written after her so called "Death" Christopher comes to the conclusion after reading 4-5 letters that she is still alive and that his father had lied to him about her. Christopher begins to feel very sick and passes out; while he is passed out he had puked on himself. When he regains consciousness his father had returned home from work, calling out his name. Enter his room and finds Christopher curled up in a ball groaning while his father is mad saying "Christopher, What the hell are you doing?" and notices Christopher had read the letters and begins to panic. after awhile he finally said "It was for your own good Christopher, Thought it was better if you didn’t know, I was going to show you when you were older" (page 114) Christopher's father begins to clean him up from all his puke and foul smell by running a bath and changing him into his jumper, while dealing with Christopher’s inability to reply due to being in shock. Christopher's father proclaims he will from now become honest with him, sharing his secret that he had killed wellington. He began to talk about how Ms.Shears would stay with Christopher and his father and cook nice home cook meals then one day Ms.Shears and His Father had argued about how she cared about the dog more than him and his jealousy lead to the death of Wellington.