Chimpanzee Characteristics

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The study of human between Chimpanzee has been an old study that until today day it's still realized to show a connection between both of them. Scientifics usually test different things to see if there is any connection between anything it can be living and nonliving things, but especially living things as animals. In we are all completely beside ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler the main character, Rosemary, recap her childhood as an object and part of an experiment between a chimpanzee and her. Rosemary's father was the head of the experiment and with his experience as a scientist he was able to conduct the experiment of a chimpanzee and a human raising together, but he failed acknowledge how that would've affected negatively his own child Rosemary.
The experiment of the study between Rosemary and Fern led to Rosemary developing Chimpanzee characteristics. In school Rosemary was always known for having a monkey sister which led to her to be bullied. In the book it says "The winter after Fern vanished, and half a
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After Fern was sent away to the place she belonged to, Rosemary went into depression. She described how it impacted her "I felt her loss in a powerfully physical way. I missed her smell and the sticky wet of her breath on my neck. I missed her fingers scratching through my hair. We say next to each other, lay across each other, pushed, pulled stroked, and struck each other a hundred times a day and I suffered the deprivation of this. It was an ache, a hunger on the surface of my skin” (Fowler, 107). Memory was all that lasted and all that was going through Rosemary's mind. The loss of Fern literally destroyed her because Fern was no just a chimpanzee to her, but it was her twin, her other half and the closest person she had. She felt like she had lost her soul because she was literally raised with Fern and then out of nowhere Fern was gone, that definitely left a big impact in Rosemary's

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