Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 204 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations before we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing/reading on a weekly basis in an informal forum.

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

A Report to an Academy

An ape that became a human, not by choice but for survival technique. He became a human so he could be free from the cage, but he was not free as his true self, an animal. He was an ape stuck in a human setting pretending to be what he is truly not. My thought after reading this story was after he got out of the cage and started acting like a human did he ever think that maybe he could escape the human world and go back to being an ape in the wild. Was he being monitored so that he could only do certain things at certain times. My concern is, is the ape happy with his new life, and does the ape see what the humans are doing to other animals like the chimp and want to help them?
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  1. UnknownSeptember 17, 2015 at 4:20 PM

    I agree that the ape has become a human because he has started to develop human-like characteristics. The ape mentions in the story that he used to smoke with the other hunters on the ship and play cards with them. This shows that the ape has become human and could be just like the other people. This is why he is writing to an academy, he believes that he should be considered a human.

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  2. UnknownSeptember 18, 2015 at 9:53 PM

    It seems to me just like in the “The Metamorphosis,” he saw his self as a bug that nobody loved or appreciate but he was actually a real human , the ape is just like that. Its like he living in two worlds , one where he was notice , he was treated like a human being till everything change and now he's living like ape thats cage with no escaping. He made his apparence as a ape to show where he stand in the world , a man in a cage.

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