In chapter 163, Christopher described the event of Smarties that his elementary teacher, Julie, performed. After Julie revealed that it was a red pencil that was in the Smarties tube, Christopher felt that everyone knew what he knew in mind. Therefore, when Julie asked him what would his mother guess what was in the tube, Christopher answered a red pencil. I found that interesting. This event showed that Christopher's mind was different than others. He thinks differently from others. He felt that everyone must know what he know as well.
After Father cleaned up Christopher, he tried to explain to Christopher why he had lied and he was the one who killed Wellington. At first, I felt pity for Father. But then, I counld not understand why he killed Wellington. Even though he explained that he killed Wellington because he thought that Mrs. Shears cared more about Wellington than Christopher and him, but I felt it was not a good enough reason to kill the dog. I mean it was not Mrs. Shears's responsibility to take care of Christopher. Christopher is not her chlid. Mrs. Shears was only helping Father and Christopher out. She did not commit to spend the rest of her life with them.
Then, Christopher ran away from home and took the train to London to find his mother. I was pretty impressed by Christopher about his "moving in a spiral" method to find the train station. I was also impressed by his capacity to tolerant the things he normally could not tolerant, such as be in a unfamiliar new place, people taliking to him or touching him...etc. When the policeman told Christopher that his father was in the train station and was looking for him, my heart beat raced. I thought that Christopher was going to be brought back to his father and all the efforts that he made by himself was gone. But luckily, Christopher was smart and lucky enough not to be brought back to his father. However, I felt pity for his father because he must be really worried about Christopher.
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