"The Zoo" is an Essay written by Helen Dunmore and published in the book: "Love of Fat Men" in 1997. In the following essay I will focus on what I think Dunmore would like the reader to focus on. I will try to read deeper between the lines and accentuate the important things in this story. This essay illustrates how the way of being a mother can be done in several different ways. It makes no …showed first 75 words of 1509 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1509 total…little monkey. And she'd been thinking of him as a human baby, like her Michael and Jamie when they learned to walk." I don't think this episode only shall be regarded as a comparison of the boys learning to walk and the orang-utan baby learning to walk, but by looking at it more loose I will interpret this whole orang-utan episode as a general upbringing by a mother whether it's an animal or a human.