Father and Mother use to be a happy pair until something got in the way. Mother left not because of disliking Father, but because of someone else. That someone else was Christopher, “I was not a very good mother, Christopher. Maybe if things had been different, maybe if you’d been different, I might have been better at it” (Haddon 106). Mother left Father because of the plain fact that she could handle Christopher and his Aspergers. Mother went even further and decided that she needed to date their close neighbor who is also having a problem with his loved one. The two abandoned their close ones to go to London with a new life and new chances. She thought that she didn't have a place with Christopher and that she wasn't being loved. Father
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He understands how to take care of Christopher and his demands. Christopher also liked to stay with Father more often than Mother for the simple fact that she had issues of her own. She tended to lash out on Christopher. She is also abusive towards Father, “But I said I couldn't take it anymore and eventually he got really cross and he told me I was being stupid and said I should pull myself together and I hit him…” (Haddon 107). Then Father tells Christopher that mother as dead and he hid mother's letters from him. The reason he did this is not to hurt Christopher in anyway but to protect him. Imagine a teenager, who has Aspergers, is told that mother left for another man because she couldn't handle him anymore. You just simply don't know what might happen to him because of that information. Father doesn't want to take any chances with Christopher's reaction to Mother. He told Mother to never call or visit them ever again. So Mother sent letter to Christopher but she thought that Christopher was reading them. In reality Father hid the letter from him, “I looked at the letter and thought really hard. It was a mystery and I couldn’t work it out. Perhaps the letter was in the wrong envelope and it had been written before Mother had died” (Haddon 99). The fact that Father had told him that Mother was dead made him only have a choice of hiding the letters from him. The interesting matter; however, is that Christopher didn't hate him
He understands how to take care of Christopher and his demands. Christopher also liked to stay with Father more often than Mother for the simple fact that she had issues of her own. She tended to lash out on Christopher. She is also abusive towards Father, “But I said I couldn't take it anymore and eventually he got really cross and he told me I was being stupid and said I should pull myself together and I hit him…” (Haddon 107). Then Father tells Christopher that mother as dead and he hid mother's letters from him. The reason he did this is not to hurt Christopher in anyway but to protect him. Imagine a teenager, who has Aspergers, is told that mother left for another man because she couldn't handle him anymore. You just simply don't know what might happen to him because of that information. Father doesn't want to take any chances with Christopher's reaction to Mother. He told Mother to never call or visit them ever again. So Mother sent letter to Christopher but she thought that Christopher was reading them. In reality Father hid the letter from him, “I looked at the letter and thought really hard. It was a mystery and I couldn’t work it out. Perhaps the letter was in the wrong envelope and it had been written before Mother had died” (Haddon 99). The fact that Father had told him that Mother was dead made him only have a choice of hiding the letters from him. The interesting matter; however, is that Christopher didn't hate him