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Yes or No. Why?
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In other words, you would have enjoyed a more extensive development of this person.
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Did you google the characteristics of elephants to research this aspect of the story for validation?
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Did they cause you to feel emotional, to shed a tear?
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If so, what were those segments?
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Why?
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For example, Ishi’s commentary being italicized, chapters going back and forth between humans and animals, the story changing from the 1950’s to the 2000’s and back?
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Did you feel that Ishi should have been more “humane” or that Ishi rendered what was deserved?
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Were you moved by the notion that elephants possibly experience their loved ones who have preceded them in death as part of the process of dying?
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Was the violence necessary?
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Did anything in the book influence your feelings about killing and eating animals?