The
story
returns
to
Mrs
.
Shears
?
s
lawn
,
where
Christopher
removes
the
____________________
____________________
and
picks
up
Wellington
.
____________________
.
____________________
appears
on
her
patio
and
yells
at
Christopher
to
get
away
from
her
dog
.
Mrs
.
Shears
does
not
stop
,
even
when
he
puts
the
dog
down
.
So
Christopher
puts
his
____________________
over
his
____________________
and
curls
into
a
ball
on
the
grass
,
trying
to
block
out
the
sound
.
Departing
from
his
story
(
Christopher
does
this
frequently
throughout
the
novel
)
,
Christopher
explains
that
he
has
difficulty
determining
people
?
s
____________________
from
their
____________________
expressions
.
But
he
can
name
each
country
in
the
world
,
their
capitals
,
and
every
____________________
number
up
to
7
,
057
.
He
recalls
the
first
time
he
met
____________________
,
eight
years
earlier
.
She
drew
faces
on
a
piece
of
paper
and
asked
him
what
____________________
the
faces
expressed
.
Christopher
could
only
identify
the
sad
face
,
which
represents
how
he
felt
when
he
found
____________________
dead
,
and
the
happy
face
,
which
shows
how
he
feels
when
he
wanders
the
neighborhood
at
three
or
four
in
the
morning
.
He
could
not
identify
the
other
emotions
.
Christopher
reveals
that
we
are
reading
his
____________________
-
mystery
novel
,
written
after
Siobhan
advised
him
to
try
writing
a
____________________
he
would
want
to
read
.
Siobhan
thought
that
the
opening
of
the
novel
should
grab
people
?
s
____________________
,
which
is
one
of
the
____________________
that
Christopher
started
it
with
Wellington's
death
.
The
other
reason
is
that
he
could
not
start
it
any
other
way
:
this
____________________
actually
happened
to
him
,
and
he
has
trouble
putting
events
in
any
____________________
other
than
the
____________________
in
which
they
occurred
.
