Play Notes

Pages 4-6

-  Siobhan did some weird jobs with a Swiss Army knife.

 - Because Siobhan does not understand that there are different meanings for facial expressions in different cultures, he finds other people confusing.

 Pages 12-15

- Christopher’s mom is in the hospital and he can’t visit her

 - He loves finding new things to do so he wanted to find out who killed the dog. He wants to make it a project.

 - Christopher is told that his mother has passed away due to a heart attack. since he has autism and finds things very literal, he kept asking what type of heart attack killed her. 

 - He goes to Mrs. Shear's house to find out who killed the dog and she tells him to leave or she’ll call the cops. 

 Pages 42-44

- Christopher reads a letter from his mom talking about how she was a bad mom.

 - We then find out that his mother did not want to put up with the fact that he had autism. She wasn't very patient to him because of his condition. 

 - She then talks about a bad story she had which led to the reason on why Ed(the father) and her were fighting, and also why she left. 

 Pages 85-87

- Christopher's mother tells him that he is going to another school.

- Christopher doe not want to leave, so he throws a tantrum.

- Ed tries to help the situation, however, you could definitely tell who the dominant parent was. He isn't as talkative as the mother.

- From my perspective, this could have been a factor to the different types of relationships that Christopher had with his mom and dad. 

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