In what ways does We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves show that identity is formed through family and kinship?

How are animals represented in Fowler’s text?

‘We each carried the weight of Fern’s disappearance and our mother’s collapse, and occasionally, for short periods, we carried it together.’
Discuss how the characters experience loss and grief.

Karen Fowler demonstrates that communication is crucial. Discuss with reference to the novel.

What does the author achieve by delaying our understanding that Fern is a chimpanzee?

To what extent can you consider Fern a true sibling?

‘The world runs,’ Lowell said, ‘on the fuel of this endless, fathomless misery. People know it, but they don’t mind what they don’t see. Make them look and they mind, but you’re the one they hate, because you’re the one that made them look.’
Discuss with relation to the novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves.

How does the novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves demonstrate that human behaviour can be determined by environment as well as genes?