Fall play scene notes--Amy

Fall play scene notes

P4-6

There is a dead dog. It belongs to Mrs Shears. Mrs Shears is upset to Christopher because she thinks Christopher killed the dog. Christopher has autism so he is acting differently than a normal person. Then the police comes. Christopher just tells truth but there are some misunderstanding between the police and him. Then he is arrested by the police. Siobhan is his teacher.

P12-15

Ed is Christopher’s dad. He knows his son is getting in trouble. But he tells Christopher to not caring this dog anymore. Christopher wants to find out who killed the dog, but Ed stops him. Because Ed does not want Christopher to get in more troubles. Therefore, he wants Christopher just to leave it. Then, Ed tells Christopher that his mom is sick and she is in the hospital. Ed does not allow Chris to visit his mom. Christopher talks to his teacher Siobhan about al things that happened. It looks like they have more closer relationship than Ed. Siobhan is listening to Christopher and knowing that Christopher cannot tell lies and he is so literal. After that, Ed tells Christopher that his mom is died by the heart attack. Later, Christopher goes to see Mrs Shears and tells her that he did not kill the dog. He shows that he wants to help her to find out who killed the dog, Wellington. But Mrs Shears is still angry and does not wants to see him and ask him to leave. 

P18-20

During this scene, Christopher just asks many people about the same question: do you know who killed Wellington? He asks Mr Thompson, Number 40, Mr Wise and Mrs Alexander. Mrs Alexander is a nice person who talks to Christopher friendly. She welcomes him to say hello even if it’s only because he is doing detective work. She asks him if he wants to eat or drink. But Christopher rejects and he leaves before Mrs Alexander takes cookies for him from the home.

P42-44

Christopher’s mom, Judy, writes several letters for Christopher. The first part is about her memory about Christopher. She looks at a photo of Christopher and she still mesmerizes that Christopher likes to play with the train set which they bought him several Christmases ago. She remembers that she teaches Christopher how people who wanted to go on the train went to the station and bought a ticket and kinds of stuff. Christopher plays with it for weeks and weeks and weeks. The second letter is a letter that Judy wants to explain something to Christopher. She starts with describing Christopher’s dad as a really patient man, but Judy is not. Then she writes about a night that they wanted to buy a Christmas gift for grandma. The mall was crowded so Christopher crouched on the floor and put hands over ears. Then he shouted and knocked those mixers off the shelf. Everyone was staring on Judy and wanted to know what was going on. Judy knew that she cannot touch nor move Christopher. It spent few hours for Judy to take Christopher back to home. At home, Christopher’s father told Christoper that it will be OK. And he argued with Judy because they have different personalities, so their ways that to deal with problems are different. Then they just stopped talking because they do not want to end up in arguments. And that was when Judy started spending time with Roger. When Judy wanted to explain this to Christopher, he started to shout and threw the chopping board to Judy. Then Judy got hurt and she cannot walk properly for a month. Therefore, Ed took care of Christopher during that time. Judy was so sad and lonely and she decided to go with Roger.

p85-87

Judy told Christopher to not trust people in London and ask him to promise that he is not going to leave the flat on his own. Christopher said he has to take the Math A level test, but Judy said she can ring the school and rearrange time to take the test. Christopher started to scream and cannot control his emotion and he threw the food. Just made him a chart to encourage him to drink and eat. The chart includes different level star which match with the amount of food Christopher will eat. 

P94-99

This is the last part of this play. Christopher cannot read the question so he started to count the cubes of the cardinal numbers to calm down. Siobhan is really patient and she helps him to read the question again. She told him he cannot show the answer of the question in the play. He can show it at the end if there are some people who want to find out how Christopher solved the math questions. Then, Ed, Christopher’s father, comes in. He really wants to talk to Christopher, but Christopher dos not want to talk to him. Siobhan asked Christopher how his flat is. Christopher said it is a small room. He has to share the bathroom with strangers. And the room smells gravy and socks. A rat called Toby is died. Christopher wants to move to Siobhan’s house and live with her, but he got rejected by Siobhan because Siobhan said  she is not his mother. Christopher said he is not allowed to be alone so he has to go to his father’s home during the time when his mom is working. But he does not allow his father to go into his room and sometimes Ed wants to talk to him, but Christopher just not answered. So Ed sets up a timer for only five minutes. He told Christopher that they need to finish a project together. The project is about to let Christopher trust his dad, Ed. Ed does not matter how long it will take, but he just wants to do it. It shows that Ed is so nice and he truly loves his son. Then he gave his son a gift, a dog, called Sandy. Christopher likes it very much. Christopher got his result of the test, it was A*. He was so happy about that. He tells his dream to Siobhan. He said he wants to be a scientist and he can do anything……