He bonds deeply with her and they spend all their time together. At the sanctuary, Sophie struggles to keep Otto alive. Sophie later discovers their bodies and realizes that she's at least partly to blame for their deaths. A few days later, the same man shows up with two more bonobo youngsters. Sophie's motives in purchasing the bonobo are good but she has inadvertently promoted the bonobo black market. When she arrives at the sanctuary, her mother is furious. Sophie rushes to the man and uses the money she has in her pocket to buy the bonobo, later named Otto. She sees a man with a young bonobo ape that is obviously malnourished and is being abused. When she's fourteen, Sophie arrives in the Congo to stay with her mother.

Her parents divorce and Sophie leaves with her father to attend school in America, while her mother continues to work on the sanctuary. By then, her mother has devoted herself to creating a sanctuary for bonobos and refuses to leave the Congo. She spends her early years in the Congo until her father gets a job in Miami, Florida.

Sophie is the child of a white man and a black woman. 3 Part 1, Chapters Part 1, Chapters Part 2, Chapters Part 3, Chapters Part 3, Chapters Part 4, Chapters Part 5, Chapters Part 6, Chapters Part 7, Chapter Characters Symbols and Symbolism Settings Themes and Motifs Styles Quotesģ Plot Summary Endangered, written by Eliot Schrefer, is the story of Sophie Biyoya-Ciardulli and her life with her mother in the Congo. All rights reserved.Ģ Contents Endangered Study Guide. 1 Endangered Study Guide Endangered by Eliot Schrefer (c)2015 BookRags, Inc.

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