Characters: Ben - He is the main character, he is also the one telling the story about what happened to his family and Zan. At the beginning of the story, Ben didn’t want or like Zan. He thought he would take up too much of his time and be annoying. As the story progressed, he began to like Zan and they continued bonding together and eventually became best friends. As the story ended, Ben became the kind, loving person that got to keep and protect Zan. Richard Tomlin - He is the father who is working on a Doctorate. He is also trying to prove to the world that animals can understand and learn American Sign Language. At the beginning of the story, he was not there for Zan; but as the project grew he began to like Zan. At the end, …show more content…
The author did this to show the conflicting sides of having a scientific animal in your home and also to show the conflicting sides of animal testing.
Order: The order of the story is from start to end as a two year time period. There are some flashbacks in this that show how they got to their new home and how they got Zan. The rest of the story is in order from start to end. This is shown thru the growth and development of Zan and the Tomlin household. Textual evidence of this is that in some points of the book, it gives dates, times, sometimes season and eclipses in years.
Point of View: The main point of view is from Ben Tomlin. Ben is telling the story of what happened to Zan. This is shown throughout the text with “I” and “we” and other third person phrases. Ben was biased toward protecting Zan and helping him learn ASL. This is also probably showing that the author for some good types of animal testing and against bad animal testing. In the story Ben finds out that his father is also running tests on rats with different drugs. Ben feels betrayed and sad and feels these types of animal testing should not be done on animals. Ben talks to his dad about it; but his dad dismisses it. The author does this so that the story isn’t narrated by a random voice, but is narrated by the main character and it goes thru his everyday life and shows the pros and
The text called, 'The Evil of Animal “Rights”', written by Alex Epstein and Yaron Brook, explains why animal testing is important and what animal activist groups have done to keep the testing from occurring. They explain the necessity of animal testing for man kind. The cures of different diseases and cancers, could all be created with the testing on animals-mostly rats and mice. The companies and labs doing these tests, like Huntingdon, which is mentioned in the text, are being harassed and interrupted in their process by animal activist groups, fighting for animal “rights”. According to the authors of
Soon ben learn all the tricks for sneaking out of the ghetto. So he can find food for his family . Later he use his blond hair and blue eye to blend in into the polish population .With the help of ben’s aunt she help him without any suspicion .Then later on ben learn that all of eastern europe thousands of people also
Half Brother, a book written by Kenneth Oppel, is about a boy named Ben whos father is a scientist. One day his father brings home a chimpanzee to do a porject to see how it would react to being brought up/treated as a human, so its like getting a new baby brother. Through out the book, Ben grows up a little and his feelings about the chimp (named Zan) change once he spends a good amount of time with Zan.
The protagonist of the story is Grady Admas. It is Grady Admas because he is the main character in the story. He is also the one who gets something power which people want and the antagonist want the power that Admas has. Admas is a good, active, and trustworthy person all the time each day and night. “Some would not agree with that assessment. Present when Marcus died, Grady knew the truth”(72). This talking about Grady only knows about the death and the
Two main characters in the story, and the whole plot is based around them. Lennie Small
Nancy Day talks about the two unique perspectives of the generally discussed subject of creature testing and altogether discusses the results of creature testing and experimentation and furthermore the advantages we pick up and expand upon. Staying nonpartisan, she gives the pursuer a decent opportunity to see where both sides are originating from additionally giving many motivations to reject the other so that no inclination is affecting the pursuer’s sentiment. Implied for any one, mindful of this level headed discussion or not, she clears the reality this issue has been overstated and is undoubtedly influencing our day by day lives regular. This book has a fundamental motivation behind giving the pursuer some data about what is going on with the goal that they can choose for themselves which side in this warmed debate to take. This two sided pugnacious source gives an alternate bend and draws in the pursuer to an unceasing fight while alternate sources are exceptionally uneven and straightforwardly tending to the solid contradiction toward creature testing. Before perusing this book I would quickly blame the creature experimenters for such superfluous savagery and abuse yet after some exhaustive exploring, I found that there are a few advantages for creature
Half Brother - Thematic Essay Kenneth Oppel, the author of the novel Half Brother, has shown many great thoughts and ideas within the novel that can be interconnected to numerous sources. One amongst the massive idea’s of the novel is to indicate and make a point that animals should have freedom. Like humans, they should have the right to move around anywhere they like in the jungles and in their natural surroundings, not within the cages created by the humans. Animal cruelty has been a big issue over the past few years. Although people are not in the favour of experimenting on animals, however, no one speaks against it which has caused it to continue even to this day.
Ed. Vegan Peace. Wanda Embar, 2008. Web. 12 Nov. 2015. Listing the source for providing animals subject to experimentation, this website gives details procedures and examples of what the animals go through and how badly they are treated. It also gives multiple cases of where animal testing was strictly unreliable and caused great mishap among many communities relying on this treacherousness. This website pinpoints exact companies and their involvement in the controversy whereas other sources would have given a rough idea. It also provides graphic pictures exhibiting the condition of the animals undergoing experimentation which provides a brief over view of the creatures after or during testing. Many alternatives are discussed in this website to assure that there is another option instead of hurting innocent animals in the unreliable task of
Throughout the book, there is no specific main character as the point of view constantly shifts from
character in the family from the novel. The first perspective was told by the youngest son in the
The story is written as a second person narrative. This style puts the reader in the position of the main character. We are never told the main character’s name, making it easier for the reader to relate to the character. Writing in the second person also challenges the reader, putting them in the position of the main character.
Ever since the late 1960’s and the early 1970’s, animal research has been under extreme fire for what they do. This is mainly due to the many changing perspectives on the relationship between humans and the other aspects of the world that are surrounding them. There are many main reasons for this change, but the main reason is the different ideas that surrounded the use and exploration of animals in laboratories is what is being brought into question.
In the book The Sisters Brothers written by Patrick deWitt the western genre is given a twist that makes the story realistically accurate. This picaresque novel is of two brothers, Eli and Charlie’s journey from Oregon to San Francisco to assassinate Hermann Warm for their job. Most other western stories end with the cowboys getting everything they hoped for with shoot outs, murder, robberies, prostitutes, trusty horses and a great deal of liquor intake. All of these things were included in The Sisters Brothers but it was shown in a different way. These bloody criminal actions were believable and not all about the guts and the glory. The story is told in the perspective of Eli, one of the two brothers, this narrative perspective
Using animals in research and to test the safety of products has been a topic of heated debate for decades. According to data collected by F. Barbara Orlans for her book, In the Name of Science: Issues in Responsible Animal Experimentation, sixty percent of all animals used in testing are used in biomedical research and product-safety testing (62). People have different feelings for animals; many look upon animals as companions while others view animals as a means for advancing medical techniques or furthering experimental research. However individuals perceive animals, the fact remains that animals are being exploited by research facilities and cosmetics
Article 4: Duty and the Beast: animal experimentation and neglected interests, D Benatar. (2000) In this article, Benatar brings to the forefront the argument that experimentation on animals should be a great concern because of the suffering and loss of life in spite of the regulations and restrictions that are supposed to guide the practice. Benatar goes as far to claim that animal testing is uncharitable, and does not support