Christopher Boone Character Traits

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About 1 percent of the world population has autism spectrum disorder. (CDC, 2014) The transition for this rare percentage into the truly disordered reality is a very troublesome task. The upbringing and traits that are portrayed by that fellow citizen are certain factors that may boost their process in their transition. In the case of Christopher Boone, he’s lucky enough to have a caring and thoughtful teacher at school, a mediocre parent, and an acceptable surrounding. He’s intelligent, knowledgeable in his preferred subjects, and more importantly he has the meaningful trait of being ambitious. Unfortunately there are a modest amount of other traits and aspects of him that are unfortunately setting him back, these include being overly methodical …show more content…

This ambitiousness can be seen as him trying to prove others wrong with seemingly undoable tasks or his belief of being capable of doing anything. His desire for success is depicted on Pg.44, fellow students have labeled him with some nasty words and questioned his intelligence. Christopher ultimately disapproves of this and exclaims, “I am going to prove that I’m not stupid. Next month I’m going to take my A level in maths and I’m going to get an A level grade. No one has ever taken an A level at our school before, and Mrs.Gascoyne didn’t want me to take it at first.”. On top of the fact that no one has done such thing in his school, the A levels are set for students of ages of 18, surprisingly Christopher is of age of only 15. Totalling these difficulties up, this task may seem out of reach even with his remarkable intelligence, but this does not withhold him and deteriorate his ambitiousness. This brief example of Christopher’s seemingly relentless ambitiousness, shows us a vast variety of goals that he may be able to reach in the future and in his preferred job. To …show more content…

His cluelessness seems absurd and can get him into lots of trouble. A case of this is him being clueless to the seriousness of the death of Wellington and the police. Christopher writes on Pg.4, “I had been hugging the dog for 4 minutes when I heard screaming.”. In this case, Christopher has no clue of the screaming and the seriousness of a dead dog. Eventually with the police arresting him, he’s still clueless about what he had done wrong. This cluelessness to seemingly grave situations for us, will lead Christopher to be caught up with trouble, pissing people off and many difficulties in getting along with people. Once again, this sets up as another roadblock that Christopher has to get past to survive in our society. Another brief illustration of his cluelessness, is not understanding the seriousness of the relationship between his mother and father. Unfortunately, Christopher’s syndrome withholds him to fully understand emotions and sexuality. As seen on Pg. 60 Christopher shows no emotions or sense of surprise when talking about Mr.Shear and his mother’s intimate relationship, “I thought about this for a while and said, “do you mean that they were doing sex?” And Mrs. Alexander said, “Yes Christopher . That is what I mean.”. The seriousness behind this is significant for us, but for Christopher it’s nothing as he is clueless to the

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