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By: Allan Wolf

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This book was mostly set in the summer of 1959 during Deadwood Days (this was similar to a carnival. This was also where Christopher Goodman died.

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Doc Chestnut was one of the main characters in this story.  He was known as "The Sleepwalker".  He did not have a very strong relationship with Christopher, but he was sad when he died.  Doc was best friends with Squib.

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Leonard Pelf was the person who killed Christopher Goodman, even though he was two years younger.  He was going through a rough time.  He is a foster kid and his siblings moved, but he doesn't know they went.  I still don't believe that this is an excuse to   kill an innocent boy.

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Squib Kaplan was known as "The Genius".  He is very smart, kind, and funny, but sometimes he is judged because of his uncontrollable tics, this causes him to not have as many friends.  Although he still found a friend in Christopher.

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Hunger McCoy was known for taxidermy.  He even had his own taxidermy booth at Deadwood Days.  He was a kind person, though he did want revenge on the guy who called the police on Doc.  He did not know Christopher very well, but he was sad when he died.

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Hazel Turner is known as "The Farm Girl".  She owns a lot of farm animals and she takes care of them all.  She works at the same diner as Mildred Penny.  She didn't  know Christopher very well, but she she did know him well enough to be as sad as the others when he died.

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Mildred Penny is known as the "The Stamp Collector".  She did not know Christopher very well, but he came to the diner that she worked at almost every morning.  This made her devastated when Christopher died.

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One morning Doc and Squib were going on their early morning eight mile run for cross country training.  About halfway through they came across what looked like a dead boy that was their age.  Soon they realized (due to his bell-bottoms) that this was Christopher Goodman.  They obviously called the police, and they soon found out the last time he was alive was the previous night, deadwood days.  Before deadwood days Christopher came to the diner that Mildred and Hazel worked at everyday and eventually Mildred became friends with Hazel and she gained a crush on Christopher.  Also before deadwood days Doc was delivering his newspapers and he came across what he thought was his mothers car in a parking lot.  He thought that he would leave a note for her, so he opened the door (nobody locked their car doors in the summer here) and started to look for a pen in the glove box, then a man walked up to the car and asked him why he was in it.  Doc said that this was his mother's car and he was leaving a note, long story short the man told Doc that this car is his and he called the police.  Doc was searched for weapons, and obviously they didn't find anything, but Doc and his friends still seek revenge on this man, but before Doc could explain he drove away.  One day Hunger and his friends were driving and they ended up running over a cat and a log, so they were stuck.  Christopher Goodman ended up driving by Hunger and helped them get the car back on the rode and Christopher gave Hunger the idea to make the dead cat dance, and at his booth at deadwood days, their was a dead cat dancing on display.

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During deadwood days Doc, Squib, Hunger, Mildred, and Hazel planned on getting revenge on the guy that called the police on Doc, so they found his address and got a big barrel full of Hazel's dirty supplies from her barn and they drove to his house and Doc and Hunger went to carry the barrel and it fell and splattered everywhere.  Their was a little bit left in the barrel so they put it on the seat and they ran.  Nothing much happened after that until around midnight.  Everyone was headed out of deadwood days and  Leonard Pelf and his friend asked Christopher for a ride home and he was kind as always and he gave them a ride.  When they got to a place where their was nobody in sight Leonard pulled out the gun and killed Christopher Goodman.

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Deadwood days never happened again after this even though it was the town's tradition.  Four weeks after deadwood days everyone went back to school, one of their teachers made everyone right a poem about their relationship with Christopher even if they didn't know him well.  The day that these were due Doc, Squib, Hunger, Mildred, and Hazel skipped school and they all went to Christopher's favorite place, the rocks by the river and they shared their poems.  They were very sad that day.  Doc thought that it was his fault that he died because he didn't put the note on Christopher's car that asked him to come to get pizza with them, instead he got killed.  Mildred thought that it was her fault because she didn't ask him to come to pizza in person so that he would come instead of giving Leonard a ride home.

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I think that the theme of this book is that  you should never take out any anger, stress, or insecurity on people that haven't done anything to hurt you.

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" Hunger 'Don't let g-' Thunk! Slop! Slosh! Doc and Hunger 'Ahhhhhhggggh' Doc 'It sloshed on my face.' Hunger 'I think I got some in my mouth!'" pg.171 I think that Doc was right and Hunger should have listened so that their plan could have worked out how they wanted it to.

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This book was very engaging and emotional.  Who Killed Christopher Goodman? was written using separate points of views which was helpful to here every ones opinion and it told me every ones relationship with Christopher Goodman.

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This was written in Hazel's point of view. "'Why didn't you ask to join us, back there, when you had a chance?' 'I don't know,' she said. 'I'm scared.' 'Scared of what?' I asked. 'Pizza?' 'Well it's too late now, anyway,' Mildred said." pg.207 I think that Mildred should have asked Christopher Goodman to come to have pizza. Even though she didn't know it then, that could have saved his life.

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"Why don't the courts and the cops and the lawyers and the judges and the counselors and the social workers ever fix anything?  They just break broken folks into smaller and smaller pieces." pg.30 When I read this passage I realized that it was written on the cover of the book.  This paragraph was written in Leonard Pelf's point of view so this made me think that Leonard is the one who kills Christopher Goodman.

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"Dear Christopher,

I have tried to explain your death algebraically.  But there are too many unknowns to solve for.  The equation will not balance.

I have tried to explain your death through the principles of quantum physics, but it seems they don't apply. (For a week I even held out hope that you were jumping off rocks in some tangential world that had split off the instant before the bullets hit you.)

Is it God?  Did God set up the dominoes and wait for some human to flick the first one?  Or is it the opposite way around?  Did humans set them up so God could do the flicking?  And what about me?  Did I set up a domino?  And did I flick it?  Either way, I'm glad I've got God who is tough enough to withstand my blame and gracious enough to forgive my guilt.  I hope you can forgive it too.

Yours,
Squib"

This passage is my favorite because Squib shares his feelings about Christopher's death and he includes his theories about the death.  pg. 262