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In the Zoo Summary & Study Guide Description
In the Zoo Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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In the Zoo Summary and Analysis
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Sitting in a zoo in Denver, Colorado, two sisters eat popcorn while watching a blind polar bear, a family of grizzlies, a black bear, and a group of monkeys. The narrator's sister Daisy is accustomed to seeing off her sister in Denver every other year, while the narrator is on her way back east. Daisy comments that the polar bear reminds her of someone named Mr. Murphy. This comment sets the sisters to thinking about their childhood in Adams, a small town fifty miles north of Denver. Orphaned at eight and ten, the sisters grew up there with a foster mother unrelated to them called Mrs. Placer, or Gran, who ran a boarding house in which, like her, all of the boarders complained and gossiped about the rest of the town.
Mr. Murphy was a gentle, jobless Irishman who spent his time drinking, playing cards, and enjoying all...
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