%run _help_reading.py
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv(
'https://github.com/MrGeislinger/victorsothervector/raw/main/'
'data/reading/all_reading-clean.csv'
)
book_name = """Animorphs #28: The Experiment"""
one_title = one_title_data(df, book_name)
one_title_summary = get_summary_by_day(one_title)
generate_plot(one_title_summary, book_name);
Overview
The Animorphs look into the Yerks taking over some animal testing lab and a meat packing site. Turns out the Yerks have been trying to remove ‘free will’ from humans by first testing on animals.
Basic exploring about treatment of non-human animals that a young teen might be able to recognize
Definitely very blunt about real-life treatment of non-human animals. Especially since it’s narrated by the only alien in the group who can technically be impartial to common practices done on Earth.
As you might expect, Cassie and Marco are on the opposite ends of the spectrum. The book clearly leans towards Cassie’s view that animals deserve our respect even if they aren’t fully sentient, but especially so. Marco has a much more direct “but they’re animals” attitude and is more than willing to accept animal harm if it’s especially inconvenient to their goals to prevent it. Ax, the narrator, represent the neutral voice and debate that we as human society has on where we draw lines.
Interesting to see the book go from debating about whether they should save the chimpanzees in the lab to where the team is in a situation of deciding to free some humans in cages. Definitely tries to draw parallels in a relatively straight-forward fashion that a young teen might connect the dots.
This book overall doesn’t really progress the story (or at least I don’t see how it will). This being another ghost writer story, I’m seeing that these tend to be relatively self-contained. And I don’t know if it’s because we’re about 30 books into the series or because this was a ghost writer, but the beginning feels particularly rushed in explaining the Animorphs (as they do every book).
I’ll probably not try and look at which are by ghost writters since I catch myself thinking about that more