A Beautiful Truth (Essay Sample)

A Beautiful Truth Name Institution Course Professor Date A Beautiful Truth Set in a Vermont home and a Florida primate research facility and told from the perspectives of humans and chimpanzees, A Beautiful Truth is at times brutal and deeply moving, and ultimately about the simple truths that supersede species, the meaning of family, the lure of belonging, and the capacity for survival. The proceeds from this book go deeply to the movement Save the Chimps, the largest chimpanzee sanctuary in the world. A profound and evocative meditation on human nature was recounted from the perspectives of the chimpanzees and the Vermont family. After reading an article on the discovery of communication and linguistic skills in apes, Walt and Judy decide to adopt a chimpanzee to help them feel complete again and fill the void their child would have left in their lives. Walt, a novice property developer, starts searching for a chimpanzee at the most obvious place he can think of traveling the circus. There, he sets up a deal with a clown and his trained monkey to help him get an illegal infant chimpanzee and deliver it to him for a large sum of money. The Vermont family adopts the chimp as a surrogate son naming him Looee. Looee, a chimpanzee raised by a kind and caring human couple who cannot have their children, will always be an outcast. Although he is not human, his unusual upbringing has made him, unlike any other chimpanzee. Looee's unusual family is irrevocably altered as her two sides conflict one fateful night; this is depicted in all animal zoos that there is some time that there are some conflicts that arise in Apes families and that, to some extent, the criminals are punished. After the conflict, however undisputed that there is no time when an Ape will be adopted and given the same rights as Human beings, which Looee suffers by being on the sideline. Researchers at Florida's Girdish Institute have been observing and studying a community of chimpanzees for many years. The research conducted at Girdish has provided conclusive evidence that chimpanzees can learn the language, need social interaction, and construct sophisticated social structures; they can also remember events and solve problems. They engage in politics, are empathetic, and can experience anger but also learn to forgive. When Looee is transferred to the Institute, he must learn to integrate into their society. In addition, there is a familial resemblance: chimpanzees are competitive, outspoken, communicative, political, deceptive, aggressive, defensive, grooming, and supportive of one another, but will turn on one another and resort to violence, even sexual bribery, if necessary. Chimpanzees have been observed to have a sense of self, the capacity for reason, and an intuitive understanding of mathematics. Chimpanzees and human beings ar...