Final Discussion 2

In our second discussion of our final, we spoke about whether or not Christopher’s father made the correct decision of telling him that his mother died when she left.  Also, we discussed whether or not his father lied to Christopher on purpose or not, and whether his mother left for selfish reasons or to protect Christopher. 

Sam thought that his mother’s choice for leaving was the correct one, and was selfless because she wasn’t a good mother to Christopher at all.  She didn’t have the patience to take care of an autistic kid, and she often hit him when she lost her temper.  Also, he stated that Christopher’s father wasn’t very helpful towards his mother’s problems with temper.  He didn’t help her through it, but instead, he blamed her for being angry at Christopher.  I sort of agreed but I actually thought this:  I think that his father pushed his mother away by criticized her for yelling at Christopher.  She then sought refuge in Mr. Shears. She then fell in love and left, using her parenting issues as an excuse.  I also thought that his father lied to Christopher as a spur of a moment accident.  He just couldn’t accept the fact that his wife left him so he lied in order to avoid the subject.  He then continued with the lie because he couldn’t tell Christopher that he lied to him. And I think he regretted that one lie for a long time, but he couldn’t tell Christopher. 

We then moved onto the fact that Christopher is super smart.  He does a game that requires great imagination and concentration and intelligence to do.  IT consists of moving squares around like checkers and moving them from the bottom half to the top.  It is really interesting how he can imagine this and do it.  He said that he cant imagine things but he did this, which requires much imagination. He also remembered the whole scheme which is really, really impressive.  He is quite smart, much smarter than other people are, but people still look down upon him (including himself) just because he is different, and they don’t understand what goes on inside his brain, which, in my opinion, is much more developed than any average people.