![]() ![]() Each member of the Cooke family was dramatically-indeed, traumatically-affected by the loss of Fern.Are they good parents? Should they have handled Fern's leaving any differently? If so, how? Consider Rosemary's father and mother. ![]() How did being co-raised with a chimpanzee impact Rosemary's development? In what ways was she different from other, "normal" children? How does she still differ from them to this day?.How were she and Fern, in the language of the novel, "Same" and "NotSame"? What does their relationship suggest about the compatibility of humans and primates? How are humans different from other animals? Rosemary recounts many memories of the chimpanzee Fern and their brief life together.Early on in We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, the character Rosemary Cooke tells the reader that she will start her story "in the middle." Why is it important to her to skip the beginning?. ![]()
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