Completar frases The Curious IncidentVersión en línea Reading exercise por Van Kerkhoven Ella 1 prime reasons fork hands facial Wellington ears order Shears murder story Mrs emotions attention garden story order Siobhan emotions The story returns to Mrs . Shears ? s lawn , where Christopher removes the and picks up Wellington . . appears on her patio and yells at Christopher to get away from her dog . Mrs . Shears does not stop , even when he puts the dog down . So Christopher puts his over his and curls into a ball on the grass , trying to block out the sound . Departing from his story ( Christopher does this frequently throughout the novel ) , Christopher explains that he has difficulty determining people ? s from their expressions . But he can name each country in the world , their capitals , and every number up to 7 , 057 . He recalls the first time he met , eight years earlier . She drew faces on a piece of paper and asked him what the faces expressed . Christopher could only identify the sad face , which represents how he felt when he found dead , and the happy face , which shows how he feels when he wanders the neighborhood at three or four in the morning . He could not identify the other emotions . Christopher reveals that we are reading his - mystery novel , written after Siobhan advised him to try writing a he would want to read . Siobhan thought that the opening of the novel should grab people ? s , which is one of the that Christopher started it with Wellington's death . The other reason is that he could not start it any other way : this actually happened to him , and he has trouble putting events in any other than the in which they occurred .