Eva

Eva

By : Peter Dickinson

13-year-old Eva wakes up in a hospital bed, from a coma.

She had been in a car accident, when she woke up the first person she saw

when she opened her eyes was her mother. “She tried the smile, but her lips

wouldn’t move.” (Eva, Dickinson Pg 5) She notices that her eye lids feel

like syrup and she couldn’t open them. Eva didn’t exactly know what was

going on at this point so she went to sleep again. While she sleeps she

experiences strange sensations and dreams. When she awakes she learns that

her life has been saved with a sugary in which her memories have been

implanted into the brain and body of a chimpanzee.

Robbo helps her to move and speak when she first wakes up

out of the coma. She was scared and very confused. He first teaches

her by putting a ball on a string and making her hit it. Eva missed by only a

centimeter and that was very good. A keyboard helps her talk and

express how she’s feeling. He was a very nice man and also was hansom.

He has showed Eva a picture or a younger man who looked just like

him.

Eva was a very strong young lady. She always felt as if her dad only

loved her for her looks. Eva had a very strong bond with her mother. She

worked very hard to gain back what she had lost. She also was very

corporative with Robbo.

A Few months later Eva is set in the future, in a dystopian

urban world. Humans have destroyed most of the world and

are isolated in super high rises and fed a steady stream of television.

Eva's father is a researcher of captive habituated chimps which whom

Eva was essentially raised. Eva's operation and recovery were

sponsored by a manufacturer of juice products, who contractually

own her and exploit her to advertise their products. “The people at SMI said

that long before the program was over, the Public Response Indicators were

already registering high interest and excitement.” (Eva, Dickinson