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* DeathByDespair: Hugo never recovered from Jennie's death and eventually died when he had a routine gallstone operation and did not wake up from anesthetia. Dr. Epstein and Sandy both say that Hugo died because deep down he wanted to.
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Jennie's death is officially ruled as an accident. Sandy, however believes that it was actually suicide: when she realized that she is permanently in the chimp colony and no one from home is ever going to rescue her, she ran full force at the bars of her cage and fractured her skull. He adds: "With all those experiments, they were almost able to erase the distinction between man and animal. The one thing they didn't look at was Jennie's ability to understand death. The knowledge of good and evil. Now isn't it ironic that with her final act, her suicide, she obliterated this last distinction?"]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Jennie's death is officially ruled as an accident. Sandy, however believes that it was actually suicide: when she realized that she is permanently in the chimp colony and no one from home is ever going to rescue her, she ran full force at the bars of her cage and fractured her skull. He adds: "With all those experiments, they were almost able to erase the distinction between man and animal. The one thing they didn't look at was Jennie's Jennie's ability to understand death. The knowledge of good and evil. Now isn't it ironic that with her final act, her suicide, she obliterated this last distinction?"]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Jennie's death is officially ruled as an accident. Sandy, however believes that it was actually suicide: when she realized that she is permanently in the chimp colony and no one from home is ever going to rescue her, she ran full force at the bars of her cage and fractured her skull.]] He adds: "With all those experiments, they were almost able to erase the distinction between man and animal. The one thing they didn't look at was Jennie's ability to understand death. The knowledge of good and evil. Now isn't it ironic that with her final act, her suicide, she obliterated this last distinction?"]]
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* InterspeciesFriendship: Jennie and her human companions, especially Sandy, who refers to Jennie as her sister and is closer to her than to his real sister.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Jennie meets several celebrities, including Bobby Kennedy and Jackson Pollock at a Bsoton Museum of Fine Arts dinner held in 1969. Kennedy was killed in 1968 and Pollock died in 1956.
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[[NamesTheSame Not to be confused with]] [[http://www.paulgallico.info/jennie.html the 1950 novel by Paul Gallico]].
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* ParentalFavoritism: A version. The Hamiltons basically considered Jennie to be their adopted daughter. Their actual daughter, Sarah tells the author (in the only conversation they have) that she hated Jennie, because her father loved Jennie more than her.
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* ScrapbookStory: The book consists of transcripts of interviews with the characters, and excerpts from an autobiography, a diary, and newspaper articles.
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''Jennie'' is a novel by [[Literature/AgentPendergast Douglas Preston]] first published in 1994. It follows the life of an extraordinary chimpanzee named Jennie and her experience being raised by humans in the 1960s and 1970s. Despite the format of interviews and excerpts from memoirs, the story is entirely fictional and is mostly based on the life of a chimp in the 1930s who was the inspiration for CuriousGeorge.
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''Jennie'' is a novel by [[Literature/AgentPendergast Douglas Preston]] first published in 1994. It follows the life of an extraordinary chimpanzee named Jennie and her experience being raised by humans in the 1960s and 1970s. Despite the format of interviews and excerpts from memoirs, the story is entirely fictional and is mostly based on the life of a chimp in the 1930s who was the inspiration for CuriousGeorge.
''Literature/CuriousGeorge''.
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* AuthorTract: In the author's note at the end, Preston notes that while the novel was fiction it was all based on real research on chimpanzees. He notes what remarkable creatures they and the other great apes are and encourages the reader to learn more about conservation of our closest genetic relatives.
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* {{Fingore}}: The final straw for Jennie being sent to the chimp colony is [[spoiler:Sandy losing a finger.]]
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* BreakTheScientist: The people who know and study Jennie are constantly annoyed by other people referring to her as a monkey. Sandy nearly gets into a fight with some other children over the wrong terminology. He parrots his father's phrase that "monkeys are inferior."
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-->''"I am being facetious, of course. Don't print that. I'm eighty-five years old, and I have gotten into the habit of saying whatever I damn well please."''
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-->''"I am being facetious, of course. Don't print that. I'm eighty-five years old, and I have gotten into the habit of saying whatever I damn well please."''"''
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The story is inspired by Meshie, a chimp reportedly raised as a human in the 1930s.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The story is inspired by Meshie, a chimp reportedly raised as a human in the 1930s.
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''Jennie'' is a novel by [[Literature/AgentPendergast Douglas Preston]] first published in 1994. It follows the life of an extraordinary chimpanzee named Jennie and her experience being raised by humans in the 1960s and 1970s. Despite the format of interviews and excerpts from memoirs, the story is entirely fictional and is mostly based on the life of a chimp in the 1930s who was the inspiration for CuriousGeorge.
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!!This novel provides examples of:
* ElephantInTheRoom: During Palliser's first visit, everyone is trying to pretend he's not there about Jennie. They try to make small talk as she tears through the kitchen making a huge ruckus.
* HenpeckedHusband: Reverend Palliser.
-->''"I could see the Reverend was having trouble concentrating on the conversation. Clearly his wife had put him up to this visit, just as she made him weed the dandelions out of our yard when she believed we were not home. I felt quite sorry for Palliser, with such a wife."''
* InterspeciesFriendship: Jennie and her human companions, especially Sandy.
* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: Averted. Dr. Epstein remarks that this is disrespectful and quotes Voltaire on the subject: "'To the living we owe respect, but to the dead only truth.' I honor Hugo's memory by telling the truth about him."
* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: Dr. Epstein.
-->''"I am being c\facetious, of course. Don't print that. I'm eighty-five years old, and I have gotten into the habit of saying whatever I damn well please."''
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!!This novel provides examples of:
* ElephantInTheRoom: During Palliser's first visit, everyone is trying to pretend he's not there about Jennie. They try to make small talk as she tears through the kitchen making a huge ruckus.
* HenpeckedHusband: Reverend Palliser.
-->''"I could see the Reverend was having trouble concentrating on the conversation. Clearly his wife had put him up to this visit, just as she made him weed the dandelions out of our yard when she believed we were not home. I felt quite sorry for Palliser, with such a wife."''
* InterspeciesFriendship: Jennie and her human companions, especially Sandy.
* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: Averted. Dr. Epstein remarks that this is disrespectful and quotes Voltaire on the subject: "'To the living we owe respect, but to the dead only truth.' I honor Hugo's memory by telling the truth about him."
* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: Dr. Epstein.
-->''"I am being c\facetious, of course. Don't print that. I'm eighty-five years old, and I have gotten into the habit of saying whatever I damn well please."''
