post 3 - the letters

"Then i stopped reading the letter because i felt sick.
mother had not had a heart attack. mother had not died. mother had been alive all the time. and father had lied about this."

i chose this passage because it is a huge climax in christopher's ongoing investigation of who may have killed his neighbor's dog, wellington. no, it doesn't tell him who killed the dog, but it is just one of the many new and somewhat disturbing things he discovers. the book is full of surprises. i think that christopher's investigation is somewhat of an epic convention to help the reader along to get to discoveries such as these. finding out that his mother is in fact not dead, but rather living in london with the ex-husband of the woman who's dog was killed, is much more important to him than who killed the dog. in order to make the story flow and get to these discoveries that christopher has to make sooner or later, i think the author created the plot of the dead dog. i am still wondering who might have killed the dog......was it his dad maybe??