Suspicion

Father figure

The lack of concern of the father interests me, and makes me question if he commited the crime. He tells Christopher not to play "detective" perhaps scared that Chris is so smart he may find out who the criminal is. I can also see some tension between the owner of the dog (Ms. Shears) involving the dad. Christopher seems to have social anxiety perhaps from his parents not teaching him the difference between meeting people and stranger danger. He talks to his teacher about his novel/diary and all his family problems which I can see a problem arising in these actions. When Ed verablly assaulted Chris I think Chris developed a strong sense of fear but worsened when his own father badly abused him. Chris told some few white lies (not really lieng to Chris) about the bruises to Siobahn so no action was taken (again, conflict of truth. vs lie). He developed such a fear of his father he did not want to talk to him let alone go home so resorted to camping outside in a  garden shed. His father seems to have a really bad temper and actually abuses him quite often. He must get upset with the constant attention Chris requires which must be the reason he cusses out Chris pretty bad and hits him. At one point Chris even leaves his strict day-to-day routine to go sit out in the garden shed for a lengthy period of time. Perhaps his anger problem could of started after the incident of his wife.

 The excess really detailed information which has nothing to do with the story makes me wonder why the author bothered to put this in, perhaps to build character to a better understanding but this seems a little bit too excessive from beginning to end.

I feel this book is a diary novel recounting the tale of the author writing this book which really confuses your thinking because of the complicated theories and thoughts shared.