"Except I can't remember anything before I was about 4 because I wasn't looking at things in the right way before then, so they didn't get recorded properly" (pg. 77)
Because Christopher is a mentally challenged child, he thinks of his mind as a computer; a way for him to organize his thoughts, helping cope with his illness. His mind is very structured, which helps him feel more comfortable and gives him the confidence he needs to understand the sometimes confusing world around him. I say this because he uses the word “recorded” when a “normal” person would have used the word remembered instead. In other parts of the novel, he says that he has a map in his mind so he doesn’t get confused with the signs and signals of the world. Christopher uses a system that only he can understand and it helps him interpret the world in a very unique way.
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