Mark Haddon has shown that Christopher struggles to be as independent as he likes, he is conveyed as the opposite of loquacious, and finds it troublesome to be around, or with people he doesn’t know let alone understand them. New environments can be frightening for Christopher and making decisions when being addressed with too much information creates an unsafe place in his mind. A significant area in which the reader can see Christopher’s struggle for independence (a personal challenge) is when he rebels against his father; this particular part of the book explores Christopher’s inability to understand complex human emotions. For example Haddon uses a metaphor to contrast Christopher’s rebellion. “I told you to keep your nose out of people’s business’,” despite the rough comment, Christopher is oddly inspired to grasp onto independence through the death of wellington. But where the reader really sees Christopher’s strive for independence is his dream of becoming an astronaut. “To be a good astronaut you have to be intelligent and I’m intelligent … you also have to be someone
Mark Haddon has shown that Christopher struggles to be as independent as he likes, he is conveyed as the opposite of loquacious, and finds it troublesome to be around, or with people he doesn’t know let alone understand them. New environments can be frightening for Christopher and making decisions when being addressed with too much information creates an unsafe place in his mind. A significant area in which the reader can see Christopher’s struggle for independence (a personal challenge) is when he rebels against his father; this particular part of the book explores Christopher’s inability to understand complex human emotions. For example Haddon uses a metaphor to contrast Christopher’s rebellion. “I told you to keep your nose out of people’s business’,” despite the rough comment, Christopher is oddly inspired to grasp onto independence through the death of wellington. But where the reader really sees Christopher’s strive for independence is his dream of becoming an astronaut. “To be a good astronaut you have to be intelligent and I’m intelligent … you also have to be someone