What Is Christopher's Actions When Acting On Action

Christopher's actions when acting on impulse drives the plot of the story majorly. The first place we see Christopher's actions drive the plot is when Christopher finds Wellington the poodle belonging to Mrs. Shears, his neighbor, dead on Mrs. Shear’s lawn with a garden fork through its side. Christopher touches the dog’s muzzle and observes that it is still warm. Automatically, he wonders who killed Wellington, and why. Acting on impulse, Christopher removed the garden fork and picked up Wellington. Mrs. Shears appeared on her patio and yelled at Christopher to get away from her dog. This sent Christopher into his detective mode as he investigates the murder of Wellington. Acting on impulse, again, he decided to write a book about his journey
to discovering who killed the dog. Throughout his journey of writing his book, he gets himself into different messes and has to think logically to try and get himself out of the messes. He also has to think logically to find the murderer.

Christophers actions also drives the plot at the crime scene. Police officers arrive to the scene and Christopher initially finds their presence comforting, but he grows agitated when the policeman begins to ask him questions too quickly, seeming to implicate him in the murder. Christopher got flustered and curled into a ball, and once a again, acting on the spur of the moment, he proceeded to hit the police officer while the officer tried to lift him to his feet. If Christopher had thought logically before acting, and had not hit the police officer out of instinct he would not of been arrested for assault. This event drives the plot because it leads up to his father crying over Wellington And everything that caused Wellington's death to occur.

Upon returning home from school one afternoon, Christopher accidentally leaves his book that he is writing about Wellington's murder in plain view on the kitchen table.
Once his father comes home from work he reads it, becomes angry, and confiscates it. Christopher, scared and in a panic to find his book starts to raid the house while his father isn't in the residence, without planning in advance. Mark Haddon shows that Christopher acted on the spur of the moment by talking about everywhere he searched for his book before taking a step back and thinking about his actions, “Then I detected in the utility room. Then I detected in the dining room. Then I detected in the living room...Then I went upstairs, but I didn't do any detecting in my own room...I detected in the bathroom...Which meant that the only room left to detect inn was father's room” (Haddon 92). After acting on instinct Christopher These actions drive the plot majorly because through all his detecting he uncovers a series of letters, hidden in a shirt box in his father’s closet, addressed to him from his supposedly dead mother. The letters chronicle a life that his mother has continued to lead with Mr. Shears in London and contain repeated requests for Christopher to respond. In shock, Christopher passes out in his bedroom surrounded by the evidence of his father’s deception. When Father comes home and realizes what has happened, he breaks down in tears. He apologizes for his lies, explaining that he acted out of
a desire to protect Christopher from the knowledge of his mother’s abandonment of the family. Christopher’s father also admits to killing Wellington after an argument with Mrs. Shears, his lover.
Christopher, now terrified of his father and feeling he can no longer trust him, sneaks out of the house and travels to London to live with his mother. During a harrowing journey, he copes with and overcomes the social fears and limitations of his condition, dodges police, and almost gets hit by a train.

When Christopher’s father discovers Christopher’s book, the two have a dramatic confrontation that reveals more detail about Father’s character.
Though Father never says so explicitly, he appears to have wanted Christopher to drop the investigation so that Christopher wouldn’t find out about the affair. This information casts a new light on Father’s earlier instruction to Christopher to cease the investigation. Father, we can see, appears not to have worried so much about Christopher digging up other people’s business as much as he worried about Christopher digging up the secrets he was keeping himself, suggesting that if this secret comes out it will have serious
consequences.