Justin Genga

"Mr. Jeavons, the psychologist at the school, once asked me why 4 red cars in a row made it a Good Day, and 3 red cars in row made it a Quite Good Day, and 5 red cars in a row made it a Super Good Day, and why 4 yellow cars in a row made it a Black Day, which is a day when I don't speak to anyone and sit on my own reading books don't eat my lunch and Take No Risks. He said that I was clearly a very logical person, so he was surprised that I should think like this because it wasn't very logical. I said that I liked things to be in a nice order. And one way of things being in a nice order was to be logical. Especially if those things were numbers of an argument (p. 24)." 

       I think this passage from the novel reveals something significant about the way Christopher sees around the world because it shows how he likes to do everything in a order. I chose this passage for a couple reasons. First off, it is very out of the ordinary how Christopher bases how his day is going to be by the number and color of cars he sees. For example, later on in the book Christopher sees 4 yellow cars in a row for two days straight, so on the third day he rides the whole bus ride with his eyes closed making sure that he doesn't see 4 yellow cars in a row again. I thinks this is a big impact on how Christopher sees the world around him because when he does see 4 yellow cars in a row, he literally limits himself from doing basically anything that day. This reveals that Christopher loyal to these standards he sets himself too, just to have things in order. When Christopher was trying to figure out who the murderer of the dog was, the color and number of cars he saw resulted in how much closer he was going to get from solving the case.