i am reading the book Eva and im not far into it but i have a huge project on it due tommorow! i dont know what to do so i guess im gonna have to pwer-read if this doesnt work...summaries....descriptions....anything! i need HELP im panicking!!!
2006-09-28 08:59:58 · 10 answers · asked by Tess! 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Sorry, there just isn't much available about the book on the Net.
"A few years ago, Pat Murphy's novelet "Rachel in Love" used the same subject matter as Peter Dickinson's new novel: a human girl whose mind is overlaid on the brain of a chimpanzee, who then has to reconcile her human and animal natures.
Now here is Peter Dickinson moving into the same territory with a young adult novel that proves that just because one author has done brilliantly with a theme doesn't mean that its possibilities have been exhausted.
Like Rachel, Eva is the daughter of a scientist who does research with chimps, and so she has grown up with them and already knows much about their lives; like Rachel, she is implanted in a chimp's body when her natural human body dies. Unlike Rachel, though, Eva's parents are still with her, with all their foibles and virtues. Her father loves his work more than anything -- loves her, it seems, more as an experiment than as a daughter. Her mother, whose affection had been unbounding, tries heroically to accept this clever ape as her daughter, but never quite succeeds -- a hug from that hairy arm gives no comfort, but only reminds her of what she has lost.
Eva finds her closest relationship with Kelly, the chimp whose body she's using. From the start, she has been aware of Kelly's dream of trees -- a dream that survives only at the limbic level, for the forests of Earth are gone, except for postage-stamp scraps here and there. It is the Kellyness of Eva that responds most to an unforgettable fellow named Grog, who comes up with an quixotic scheme to reestablish the chimps, if not in the wild, at least among trees, for Grog believes that the human race is doomed and hopes Eva can prepare the chimps to inherit the Earth.
It is perhaps too easy to say that this is a natural young adult novel, since it deals metaphorically with exactly the crises of adolescence -- the replacement of a small smooth body with a large hairy one, the loss of parental affection and the discovery of parental weakness; leaving the known world and striking out into the wild. Eva, as with all Peter Dickinson's work, is far more complex than the simple structure and gemlike clarity of voice suggest.
It's enough for me to say that whether you compare it to Dickinson's previous work or to Murphy's "Rachel in Love," Eva measures up. I suspect that the only reason Dickinson doesn't have a giant reputation in the field of science fiction is because his writing has all been marketed for children. That's our loss, their gain."
2006-09-28 09:13:07 · answer #1 · answered by johnslat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eva By Peter Dickinson
2016-12-28 15:47:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Peter Dickinson Books
2016-11-14 08:16:59 · answer #3 · answered by alpis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The book can be read in one day, it's not that long--I don't know that it would be a pleasant day though. I seem to remember procrastinating reading Great Expectations and having a much tougher time with it. There should be reviews of the book on Amazon. Just do a basic search on the internet to find reviews of the book and/or descriptions of the author's life and work. But there won't be any websites that will provide cliffnotes type information for the book.
My brief summary based on my reading the book 1999-2000ish...girl wakes up from coma and she's a monkey...(this futuristic world has depleted the world's resources so there aren't many--if any--animals living and surviving in the wild)...in the upcoming weeks, months, years...she has to learn to cope with her new body. She has all her old memories, but she has all new instincts and desires. She is more animal than human now. She has to choose between her two lives...and she chooses to be a monkey...and have a normal monkey life.
2006-09-28 11:14:03 · answer #4 · answered by laney_po 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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I need as much info about the book EVA by peter dickinson as possible!! big project due tommorow!!!HELPPPP!!!!
i am reading the book Eva and im not far into it but i have a huge project on it due tommorow! i dont know what to do so i guess im gonna have to pwer-read if this doesnt work...summaries....descriptions....anything! i need HELP im panicking!!!
2015-08-16 14:08:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
info book eva peter dickinson big project due tommorowhelpppp
2016-01-30 07:01:48 · answer #6 · answered by Dexter 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read the book, man. That's the intention behind being asigned a book report. Edjucate yourself.
2016-03-18 02:53:27 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why'd you wait this long?
Eva hear of procrastination?
2006-09-28 09:06:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do your own homework!
2006-09-28 09:03:44 · answer #9 · answered by stevekc43 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you should read faster! or should have started earlier!
2006-09-28 09:03:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋