Christophers View

 

 

"I see everything. That is why I don’t like new places. If I am in a place I know, like home, or the bus or the shop, or the street, I have seen almost everything in it before hand and all I have to do is look at the things that have changed or moved. For example, one week the Shakespeare’s Globe had fallen down in the classroom at school and you could tell because it had been put back slightly to the right and their were three little circles of Blu-Tack stain on the wall down the left-hand side of the poster. And the next day someone had graffitied CROW APTOK to lamppost 437 in our street, which is the one outside number 35. But most people are lazy. They never look at everything." (140)

This passage shows that Christopher has a lot of trouble identifying what information he should be paying attention to and what information he should not. Christopher tries to take in every single detail around him and ends up overwhelmed by the amount. This passage also shows that Christopher realizes that his way of taking in information is different that other people’s. Even though Christopher can’t go to many new places because of his way of taking in information, he still thinks that it is better than other people’s way and that everyone else is lazy. Christopher also not only see’s that he is different than other people, but he understands how he is different but does not want to change and is incapable of changing regardless..