• Yes or No. Why?

  • In other words, you would have enjoyed a more extensive development of this person.

  • Did you google the characteristics of elephants to research this aspect of the story for validation?

  • Did they cause you to feel emotional, to shed a tear?

  • If so, what were those segments?

  • Why?

  • 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?

  • Did you feel that Ishi should have been more “humane” or that Ishi rendered what was deserved?

  • 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?

  • Was the violence necessary?

  • Did anything in the book influence your feelings about killing and eating animals?