When Christopher discovers the box of letters that his mother has been sending to him it is heartbreaking to me. The thing that makes it the most sad is how Christopher is unwilling to originally stray from his father’s word that his mother had died—he trusts so much in the things that his father tells him that his brain limits the possible explanations that could be made for why the letter he reads is dated 18 months after his mother’s death. For some reason that I’m not completely sure of this song, along with the music video, has come to my mind multiple times while reading Haddon’s novel (especially at this point in the novel when he finds the letters) *wave your mouse over the blank space below and the link will pop up* :
Christopher is trapped in his head so much and I think he realizes this but doesn’t have a reaction to it—the reason he doesn’t have a reaction is because he functionally can’t. The overall tone of the novel as a result of this gives the same feel as this song does; you can feel that there is an innate ability to move on in life and there is a constant progression forward but it’s filled with an empty sadness. Christopher’s life seems to be still-frames since he lives according to the basic and doesn’t clutter his life up with the emotional baggage that most people do.
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