Character Analysis Of Christopher Boone

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In this novel the main character is also the author; Christopher John Francis Boone is fifteen years old boy who has Asperger’s. As this novel unfolds you grasp that Christopher is not a normal child, he relays on patterns, graphs, and tables. He enjoys things to be simple and start forward. Christopher refers himself to be a mathematician and have a very clear disgusts towards lying. In the novel CI you get a raw glimpse into how Christopher’s mind is strange, but magnificent at the same time. Christopher explains why he is fixated on prime numbers, “Prime numbers is what is left when you have taken all the patterns away” (Haddon 15). This quote explains why Christopher is passionate about prime number, he simple likes the pattern. A second

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