Brief Summary Of The Book 'Half Brother' By Kenneth Oppel

Half Brother written by Kenneth Oppel is an incredible book about a boy that develops a relationship with his father’s experiment, a chimp named Zan. In the beginning of the story Ben does not want to have a brother, especially one that isn’t human, but even though he is upset about it he is forced to go along with it. After every day that goes by, Ben starts feeling better about his “half brother” and realizes that it isn’t that bad having someone to talk to and play with. Ben and his mom begin to think about Zan as a brother rather than an experiment, but his dad thinks that Zan is an experiment and strictly an experiment. Ben’s dad treats Zan like an experiment, and he does this by hiring an array of interns to take shifts babysitting Zan.
For example, in the book Ben’s dad says that Zan needs to be left in an isolated room, in a chair with cameras watching him. Ben completely disagrees with his father’s decision and takes Zan out of the room to play with him. Another example of how his father’s actions affect other people in the story is by telling the intern to keep Zan in the room and to put him in the tantrum chair when he misbehaves; by the intern following the rules she is sent to the hospital. Dr. Richard Tomlin’s intern, the one that has been bitten recently released the pictures of the Tantrum chair and the project is receiving bad publicity, which is now causing the possible funding to go