Detective Christopher

Christopher got home early from school, so he decided to watch Blue Planet and he left his notebook with all of the detective work in it on the counter. His dad got home and found the notebook and Christopher realized what was about to happen. Christopher’s dad was very mad, and he started yelling. This made Christopher scared, so he screamed and hit his dad and couldn’t remember the rest. Once he “was switched back on again” his dad took his notebook and put it in the garbage. A couple of days later, after Christopher and his dad made up Christopher went back into the garbage bin to look for his book, but it wasn’t there. He searched around the house and eventually found it in a box in his dad’s room, making sure it looked exactly the same. “Then I saw that there was another box underneath the toolbox, so I lifted the toolbox out of the cupboard. The other box was an old cardboard box called a shirt box because people used to buy shirts in them. And when I opened the shirt box I saw my book was inside it.” Christopher is very clever sometimes, he actually frequently does stuff like this, like going around and investigating people. He can sometimes be quite a troublemaker. I do the same thing though, whenever I get in trouble and lose my electronics I would always try to use Find My iPhone to find them. I’d also try to sneak out of my room when I’m on timeout and go find something to do. When I was younger, I’d do things like what Christopher is doing a lot. The writing in this passage makes it seem like a detective novel, the way he specifically describes all of the places he searches and tries to reason out where his book could be. His first-person description makes it seem like Sherlock Holmes, one of his favorite characters, detecting in a house. There is also added suspense because of how the author keeps writing that Christopher thinks he hears his dad’s car. I was mostly looking for a way to entertain myself and defy my parents. Christopher becomes a full-blown detective and tries to solve the case of the missing book using intuition. He must really enjoy all of this detective work.