Christopher Boone’s parent, Ed and Judy Boone, compare and contrast in many ways as we all see in the story. To begin, one trait that both Ed and Judy share is their want to keep Christopher happy, even though they may have to lie in order to achieve his happiness. His father expresses this when he states, “.......” when he finds Christopher reading the letters from his mother that he had hidden. Ed didn’t want Christopher to know the truth about his mother leaving and lied about her death in order to keep him happy. His mother expresses this similarity of keeping Christopher happy when she writes in one of the letters, “And I think that was when I realized you and your father were probably better off if I wasn't living in the house… And it