Michael Standard: Post Two

Christopher's virtual inability to understand other humans' emotions can be helpful when making decisions for himself, so that his conclusion is not biased, but this has an undesirable side-effect. I feel sorry for him, because this means that when bad things happen to him, he doesn't think through the way others might react to his reactions. This is apparent when Chris learns that his mother is still alive, and his dad killed Wellington. He thinks "Father is dangerous. Father lied. I must escape." with no flexibility to the fact that his father just faulted once, because Chris knows no better.