1. Christopher
describes his behavorial problems and their effect on his parents
and their marriage. Explain your feelings after having read pages
45-48.
2. How effective were the maps and diagrams included with the text
in helping you see the world through Christopher's eyes?
3. Christopher often talks about being alone on one way or another.
Site these passages and explain how they speak to Christopher's
relationship with human beings.
4. Site some comical scenes from the novel. Why are they funny?
Could these same situations also be construed as sad or
exasperating?
5. Is a large part of the achievement of this novel is that Haddon
has created a door into a kind of mind his readers would not have
access to in real life? Explain.
6. On critic suggests that at the novel's end, "the gulf between
Christopher and his parents, between Christopher and the rest of us,
remains immense and mysterious. And that gulf is ultimately the
source of this novel's haunting impact. Christopher Boone is an
unsolved mystery." Is this anaccurate assessment? If so, why?
