An important aspect of Ed Boone and Judy Boone is trying to be protective. Ed Boone and Judy Boone both love their son, Christopher, very much. They both tried to protect Christopher in their own ways. On page 84, Ed find Christopher in his father’s room reads letters his mother wrote to him that he had been hiding from him. Ed said, “I did it for your own good, Christopher. Honestly I did. I never meant to lie. I just thought...I just thought it was better if you didn’t know… that… that… I didn’t meant to… I was going to show you when you were older… I didn't know what to say… I was such a mess… she left a note and… then she rang and… I said she was in the hospital because… because I didn't know how to explain. It was so complicated. So difficult.
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Judy Boone gets frustrated and scared really easily. On page 143 when Christopher went outside of the house because he was scared of Mr. Shears. In Christopher’s book he wrote “ And then I heard Mother’s voice and she was shouting, ‘Christopher…? Christopher…’ and she was running down the road, so I came out from between the skip and the Ford Transit van and she ran up to me and said, ‘Jesus Christ,’ and she stood in front of me and pointed her finger in my face and said, ‘ If you ever do that again, I swear to God, Christopher, I love you, but… I don’t know what I’ll do.” Judy panic the second she couldn’t find Christopher, without thinking that he just wanted some space. When Christopher was scared of his own father because he killed Wellington. Ed didn’t pressure Christopher to talk to him because he understood how hard it was for Christopher to know that his own father killed Wellington. Ed gave his son the space he needed and when he thought it was time to sit down and talk to Christopher. In Christopher’s book he wrote, “ And father said, ‘I’ll do you a deal.’ And he was holding the kitchen timer, which is a big plastic tomato sliced through the middle, and he twisted it and it started ticking. And he said, ‘ Five minutes, OK? That’s all. Then you can go’ So I sat on the sofa and he sat on the armchair and mother was in the hallway and father said, ‘Christopher, look… Things can’t go like this. I don’t know about you, but this… this just hurts too much. You being in the house refusing to talk to me… you have to learn to trust me… And I don’t care how long it takes… If it’s a minute one day and two minutes the next day and three minutes the next day and it takes years i don’t care. Because this is important. This is more important than anything else.” (page 151) In this quote you can see that Ed is a calm and patient father who gets his point through to his son
Judy Boone gets frustrated and scared really easily. On page 143 when Christopher went outside of the house because he was scared of Mr. Shears. In Christopher’s book he wrote “ And then I heard Mother’s voice and she was shouting, ‘Christopher…? Christopher…’ and she was running down the road, so I came out from between the skip and the Ford Transit van and she ran up to me and said, ‘Jesus Christ,’ and she stood in front of me and pointed her finger in my face and said, ‘ If you ever do that again, I swear to God, Christopher, I love you, but… I don’t know what I’ll do.” Judy panic the second she couldn’t find Christopher, without thinking that he just wanted some space. When Christopher was scared of his own father because he killed Wellington. Ed didn’t pressure Christopher to talk to him because he understood how hard it was for Christopher to know that his own father killed Wellington. Ed gave his son the space he needed and when he thought it was time to sit down and talk to Christopher. In Christopher’s book he wrote, “ And father said, ‘I’ll do you a deal.’ And he was holding the kitchen timer, which is a big plastic tomato sliced through the middle, and he twisted it and it started ticking. And he said, ‘ Five minutes, OK? That’s all. Then you can go’ So I sat on the sofa and he sat on the armchair and mother was in the hallway and father said, ‘Christopher, look… Things can’t go like this. I don’t know about you, but this… this just hurts too much. You being in the house refusing to talk to me… you have to learn to trust me… And I don’t care how long it takes… If it’s a minute one day and two minutes the next day and three minutes the next day and it takes years i don’t care. Because this is important. This is more important than anything else.” (page 151) In this quote you can see that Ed is a calm and patient father who gets his point through to his son