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Toby’s death is symbolic because Toby is something that made Christopher feel safe in the past.Toby’s death symbolizes Christopher letting go of his past.Christopher stated “…Mother doesn’t have a garden so i buried him in a big pot…” Christopher would go on and ask for another rat so he clearly had his mind off of Toby and he was ready to move on to the future.

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Christopher’s actions cause a conflict for mother by coming to London and going to mothers house made a conflict between Rodger and mother which led to them being separated

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I think Toby dying shows that no matter how bad things are things can always get worse. For example “another big thing is that Toby died he was 2 years and 7 months old”. This showing it is adding to all of the bad things that happened already.

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If I was in Christopher position I wouldn’t have accepted him. I’m the test when the author says “ and father said, “I’ll do you a deal” and he was holding a kitchen timer, which is a big plastic tomato sliced through the middle, and he twisted it and it started tickling.  And he said “five minutes OK?” When Christopher says yes during this I would have been the opposite because after this they started communicating more. If I was in that position I would have been disappointed and confused why he would do that.

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Toby’s death symbolizes the death of Christopher’s past life when he was in the dark about everything. Toby was his companion when he was “alone”. But now that he has a new dog, and both his parents, he doesn’t really need him anymore. “And another bad thing was that Toby died because he was 2 years and 7 months old, which is very old for a rat…”

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Toby’s death is symbolic because he is the only thing that Christopher has as a memory of the only pet he had his whole life and wanted to burry him in his father’s garden as it says in this quote “Toby died because he was 2 years and 7 months old which is very old for a rat, and I said I wanted to bury him, but mother didn’t have a garden, so I buried him in a big plastic pot of earth like a pot you put a plant in. And I said I wanted another rat but mother said I couldn’t have one because the room was to small.” And he was also the only family he had when he went to England after running away from his father.

Christian Joaquin

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Christopher gets sad and happy to find out his mother is still alive and if father kept it a secret

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One way Christopher’s actions cause conflict between him and mother in the end is when she cancelled his exams. He was always so confident on his math skills and when mother cancelled his exams he was upset which lead them to fight. Christopher completely turns his mother's life upside down by moving in with her and her boyfriend. He is also obsessed with taking his A level maths test. He and his mother move back to Swindon and Christopher slowly learns to trust his father again. This shows us that there was conflict between them but in the end everything turned out fine.

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Christopher behavior caused a conflict for the mother. First when Christopher moved to London she wanted to see him so much that she ended up loosing her job because of Christopher. As you can see this is the conflict from Mother and Christopher.

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I feel that chirwpohers dad is sorry because he feels guilty and because he brings him to the zoo to see the animal I feel like that’s a bad apology

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It shows that after Toby died Chris felt sad but it cho

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It means even gif you are striking for a goal it doesent mean you should give up on it and you should continue trying to follow your goals and dreams

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I think Father’s apology was sweet but, at the same time a little too late. I do think it was sincere but if it was me I would not forgive him. Mainly because he killed a dog, lied to me about my mother dying which is a terrible, terrible thing to use as a excuse, and I wouldn’t feel comfortable around him.

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Christopher’s behaviors cause a conflict for mother because he doesn’t want to go back home to father and wants to be with mother, causing father to be angry with mother. In the text it says “Christopher, not now. I’m getting phone calls from your father threatening to take me to court.” This shows that mother has a conflict with father because of Christopher wanting to stay with mother

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Mother ends up in losing her job because of Christopher’s behavior when he couldn’t take the a test and because she’s been to busy taking care of Christopher. The quote I have to support this statement is, “And the day after the office where mother worked rang and told her she couldn’t come back”

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Christopher’s behaviors cause mother conflict at the end because when he comes to live with her and Roger ( Mr. Shears). Roger doesn’t like that Christopher is staying with them and doesn’t want to be in the middle of this mess with Christopher, father and mother. Mother leaves Roger and takes Christopher with her back to the house. During this time mother also loses her job. A quote that shows that mother is now jobless is in paragraph 682 it says, “And the day after that the office where Mother worked rang and told her she couldn't come back to work
because they had got someone else to do her job for her, and she was really angry and she said that it was
illegal and she was going to complain…”This shows that mother is having a person to person conflict because her work had just fired her and she is angry about it and she’s going to complain but if Christopher never reunited with his mother like this she would still have her job because the reason why she had to take a break was because of Christopher and his needs. This is why Christopher’s behaviors caused a conflict for mother.

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If I were Christopher I wouldn’t accept his apology and gift. When the author states” I’ll do you a deal, and was holding the kitchen timer” he was setting a timer to talk to him for 5 minuets and he didn’t want to. If I were in that position I would be worded out and confused on why he would want to talk now and try to explain himself