Ed Boone Character Analysis

Ed Boone is the antagonist in the novel called the curious incident of the dog in the night-time. Does him being the antagonist make him the villain in this novel. Christopher John Francis Boone, Ed’s son started thinking he was the bad guy from the second half of the book because he found out that his father lied to him about his mother's death and from everything Christopher tells us about his father, he does seem like a bad guy. But then again are things always as they seem?

In the beginning of the novel after Christopher got arrested and is dad came to get him. Ed started yelling at the police, he was saying things like “I want to see my son” and “Why the hell is the locked up and “of course I’m bloody angry” (p.16). After he finished yelling. Christopher doesn't like being touched or hugged so but they have a way to show one another that they love each other, it's their fingers spread ritual, which is spreading their hands in a fan and then touching each other’s fingers, Christopher knows that it means I love you. That's the first thing Ed did when Christopher got out of the cell. Also Ed deserves sympathy because he is a single father taking care of a child with autism which is hard and running his own business. Most of the time he is really sweet to Christopher. But Christopher doesn’t acknowledge it whatsoever. Even his ex wife Judy praised him for being an amazing parent to Christopher and
He didn’t mean to hurt Christopher he was just trying to protect him, and to him if it meant lying to his son he took the chance cause one thing I learned about Ed Boone is that he would do anything for his son and everything that happened was because he was scared of losing Christopher and in the end he almost did. But he couldn't let that happen Ed was not going to let go years of getting to know and taking care of Christopher and has started restoring his relationship with his beloved