Braving the unknown
Rishi
Christoper encountered many challenges throughout the play, which sowed the ideas of
dishonesty, lies and braving the unknown in this story. Christopher is painted as an
charterer who doesn't understand lying and has trouble working through the everyday
life. Christopher is a complex charterer who develops through the challenges thrown at
him.
"I need to sit down and be quiet and think", Christopher said as he sat down on the
railway station, trying to collect himself as he tried to get his head around to how he
would make his way to his mother's house in London. To say this was new to him would
be an understatement, Christopher until now has never gone much further than the end
of his own street. When Christopher goes to London, buying a ticket and getting on the
train is a huge challenge for him to overcome. The different voices of the Ensemble get
across how chaotic Christopher finds the experience. Having several different voices
stating the sights and sounds that Christopher might be experiencing gives the
audience a clear idea of how chaotic and difficult this situation must be for him.
Christopher thrives on having everything in order and having events in his life
predictable but however as continues on his journey to find his mother who he had
thought was dead. The overload of information he is given overwhelms him in a number
of occasions. He however understands the objective of mission he has set himself on
and utilises a number of coping mechanisms, such as counting up prime numbers as he
curls in a ball. This trip played as one of the biggest breakthrough Christopher had,
pushing through his comfort zone and persevering through this journey. The charterer
went though immense growth as the reader strung along his journey witnessing the
world through his eyes as he braved through the chaotic real world filled with strangers.
Christopher was painted as a character who has trouble mingling and being around
people he didn't know. In his journey to London, he slowly tried to break through his
bubble to build unlikely acquaintances through his journey, persevering through the road
bumps his condition availed him. "I don’t talk to strangers. But I'm doing detective work",
the reader was given a glimpse through the lens through which Christopher interacted
with other people and the difficulty he had with the basic interaction with people as he
made his way through London. This is not the only time Christopher tried to crack out of
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his shell, during the start of the play, he tried to investigate the death of Winston the
dog, during which he had to interview people who he barely knew, along with some
quite sketchy characters. He found this quite challenging but he pushed through as he
knew that to come to a proper conclusion he needed to understand the case more.
While this proved quite challenging he persevered through it, this breakthroughs helped
him push through and take his A - level exams which came in during a family crises he
couldn't have imagined to be in.
Exams can be challenging experiences and have an element of the unknown to them,
Christopher admirably rises to the challenge of his maths exam despite being very tired
at the time of taking it and not to mention he had just gone through a huge shift in his
family dynamics. "I can see the questions but I can’t read the questions because when I
look at the words they all seem confused and the wrong way round and mixed up to
me." Christopher is so tired he cannot read the questions that are in front of him.
Despite this he pulls himself together and takes the exam. As he took the his exam, he
has gone through two families falling apart on him, which he doesn't understand why it
happened and is still is confused by a lot of choices made by his parents who he held at
very respected position and trusted.
Christopher is portrayed as the opposite of a brave individual, but as the play progress
through, the story starts to paint him in situations that break his understanding of the
world around him. And as he falls down his emotions scattered, he pulls himself up.
Pushing through the challenges and growing as a character. He finds solace in his
feeling of loneliness which drowned him after he felt betrayed reading the letters his
mum sent through who he thought had passed away, letters which were hidden by Ed,
the only person he trusted whole heatedly. Even through all this Christopher braved his
fears. As play flowed through we saw Christopher grow into a person who braved the
known.
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