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Fern Game Analysis

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Although the scientists tried to study the potential of apes to become humans, Fowler indicates that this is a flawed and unnecessary because of her conviction that humans and chimpanzees are nearly identical in everything but physical structure. “We’re in my father’s study, playing a game we call Same/NotSame…So I get to play a game I can’t lose and I get to tell everyone everything I’m thinking while I do it” (80). Fern is shown in this situation to be unable to comprehend the purpose of the game and perhaps unable to reach human levels of cognition. Fowler later reveals that Fern “with every appearance of careful consideration, she’d given me the red chip” (203). The revelation heightens the futility of holding humans to be higher and that

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