Part 2, Sections 4 and 5 Summary

"Month Six, Day Eleven"

The chapter begins with a narrative description of the chaos while a commercial is being shot for a shaper broadcast, chaos caused by a rebellious chimp. Eva, seated in her assigned chair, overhears an angry young man complaining about how badly the chimps are being treated. A moment later, she manages to calm all the other chimps down (see "Quotes,", p, 105), and the shoot continues. On a break, she has a conversation with the young man, Grog (short for Giorgio) Kennedy, son of the director Mimi Venturi whom he doesn't like very much. Conversation reveals that Grog has no problem relating to Eva in her current form, even to the point of allowing her to groom him. Conversation also reveals his love for animals, his belief that humans are in the process of giving up...