Wellington

In the beginning Mrs. Shears’s dog, Wellington is lays on the grass with a fork sticking out of it, but Christopher put his hand on the muzzle of the dog, pulling out the fork and touching the dog instead of calling for an adult. If it was a child I’m sure they would scream or call their parents…

Christopher Boone’s forgiveness toward his father in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. In the book, Christopher becomes afraid and upset with his father since Mr. Boone killed Wellington, Mrs. Shears’s dog. Christopher was also very fond of Wellington, and Mr. Boone lied about killing Wellington at first. Christopher does not feel safe with his father anymore, so he travels to stay with his mother. At the end of the book, Christopher visits his dad more and more. Christopher’s…

deceived by his father, Ed. Through sleuth, he has found out that his so called “dead” mother is not really dead; but instead, she is in London with the husband of a neighbor. Along with this, Christoper has also learned that his own father has killed Wellington, the dog of the neighbor whom ran off with Christopher's mom. Christopher learns the truth behind the lies that his dad tells him and is both disgusted and terrified of his father. This causes him to run off to his mother to stay “safe”…

part of it.. Over the story, Christopher also learned many lessons about human nature. His father explains how he killed wellington when he overreacted, ”I killed wellington, Christopher…”, and “I know, I know if I had given it a small kick it would have probably would have backed off” (120-121). Christopher learns how his dad killed wellington when he reacted to wellington trying to bite him. He learns that people overreact at times, and it's in human nature. Later on, he explains how a man…

when that happened his father finally thought it was a good time to tell Chris what happened to wellington, he had said to Chris “I killed Wellington” Chris didn't believe it at first but his father just hated to break the truth to him. Christopher after hearing this it heartbroke him and he started to think, he needs to leave his father he didn't want to live with his father because he had killed Wellington he thought that he would kill him. Christopher could not trust his dad anymore or even…

wanted to talk to his father about the dog. Take for instance, when Christopher says “I like Wellington and I went to say hello to him, but I didn’t know that someone had killed him…I am going to find out who killed Wellington” (20). In the quote, Christopher wants to talk about Wellington, since he likes Wellington. But his father tells Christopher not to talk about or investigate the death of Wellington. Christopher continues on with the investigation and he does not tell his father about it.…

Many novels have introductions that start with some sort of loss to grasp the reader's attention, but in the novel The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime by Mark Haddon not only does loss occur at the start of the story, but each main character endures the loss of someone or something important at some period in the story, and some of them alter their decisions based on their loss. Christopher, Ed, and Eileen all experience 2 losses throughout the story that had a great impact on their…

• Christopher runs into Mrs. Alexander while going to a store. She is unsure to answer his question when he asks her if Mr. Shear killed his mother. When Christopher tells her his mother is dead she gets shocked and tells him that she shouldn't be telling this to him but she going to tell him but first, she said let`s walk to the park, which Christopher doesn't want to do because she is a stranger to him. • “I`m scared of being in the park with you because you’re a stranger” (61). •…

differently in situations. This is shown when Christopher is taking to the police after finding the dead dog. This is also show when Christopher is physically sick to his stomach after finding out that his mother is still alive and that his father killed wellington. Another moment in the book that interpretative Christopher as someone that acts differently in situations is when Christopher runs away to see his mother in London. Overall throughout the book I got the interpretative that…

always fit into a prehospital context. As a result of this ambulance services created their own guidelines to follow based upon the Canadian C-Spine Rule and the NEXUS criteria. An example of these is the cervical spine immobilisation procedure from Wellington Free Ambulance. This set of guidelines is based off the NEXUS criteria with influences from the Canadian C-spine rule and are used to determine whether a cervical collar should be placed. The guidelines require gaining a history of the…