Judy Boone Quotes

In the fictional novel by Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, Judy Boone was portrayed as an absent mother for most of the story. Judy was the mother of Christopher Boone, the main character of the story. She had left Christopher after being frustrated by raising an autistic son and because of falling in love with Roger Shears, their betrothed neighbor. Judy Boone was a very dynamic character who starts off as selfish and impatient but eventually grows to put Christopher and her love for him as a priority, she was overall a very confused and conflicted character.
Judy always seemed to put herself first in the beginning and came off as selfish. “Roger said he had asked for a transfer… He asked if I wanted to come with him… So I said yes,” (Haddon 109). Judy choose to move away with Roger, …show more content…
In page 106 Judy says, “I'm not like your father. Your father is a much more patient person. He gets on with things and if things upset him he doesn’t let it show. But that's not the way I am and there's nothing I can do to change that,” in one of her letters to Christopher. As a parent, Judy was always frustrated and flustered with her disabled son. Unlike her husband, Judy was usually always impatient with Christopher. Being a parent prove to be very difficult for Judy. This brought out her impatience to a larger extent. During a visit to the department store, Christopher had thrown a tantrum while he was with Judy. She could not contain Christopher which saddened her and caused a lot of frustration within the family. “I said I couldn’t take it anymore and eventually he (her ex-husband) got really cross and he told me I was being stupid and said I should pull myself together and I hit him,” (Haddon 107) at this point Judy was on edge, raising a disabled child proved to be too much for her. Her frustrations and impatience had probably caused her