![]() ![]() ![]() At the point, the story took several digressions as well, losing the tight focus of its beginning. He thought of himself as a human, and with that became just another narrator. At that point, Bruno was no longer an unreliable chimpanzee narrator. I was willing to suspend disbelief up to a point, but there was a tipping point when the evolution went off the rails for me. ![]() right up to the point where I felt like it went too far. But as Bruno evolves, becoming more and more human-like, he pushes against society's expectations of him. I was fascinating with the way that Bruno described how he decoded what humans mean by a wave and how the good night waves of the scientists at the laboratory differed. Hale does an excellent job capturing the world through Bruno's eyes, first as a child in the Lincoln Park Zoo, then as a research participant at the University of Chicago. "My name is Bruno Littlemore: Bruno I was given, Littlemore I gave myself, and with some prodding I have finally decided to give this undeserving and spiritually diseased world the generous gift of my memoirs." From the first sentence, we can tell that Bruno is well educated and thinks quite highly of himself: Show More story is told by Bruno Littlemore, a chimpanzee who is looking back on his life and narrating his memoirs. ![]()
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