Gorilla in the Guest Room By Gerald Durell

Gerald Durrel was born on 7th January 1925 in Jamshedpur, India. He is a famous British naturalist who travelled around the world promoting conservation of wildlife. Durrel called himself a “champion of the small uglies” and his advocacy for wildlife conservation. He found the Jersey Zoological Park in the Channel Islands were dedicated towards the conservation of endangered species. He wrote a few books, in order to support his conservation efforts, like The Corfu Trilogy, Zoo in my Luggage, Birds Beasts and Relatives and Menagerie Manor.

Gorilla in the Guest Room is the writer s account of his experience with a baby gorilla that stayed in his home for a while before being transferred to the city zoo The title justifies itself as the baby gorilla stayed as the writer s guest and more or less behaved in a way a visiting guest generally does The writer flew to the London airport to collect the gorilla fearing that he would be given a chimpanzee instead He was escorted by the animal dealer to a room in the animal shelter of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals He saw a room full of chimpanzees and was ...

1.
Describe in your own words: the narrator's first meeting with N'Pongo.
2.
Describe in your own words: the family's reaction to the gorilla.
3.
Describe in your own words: how N'Pongo explored the guest room.
4.
Describe in your own words: why the door handle was bent at an odd angle.
5.
Describe in your own words: how N'Pongo behaved when visitors tried to take pictures of him.
6.
My heart sank and I had visions of having to go back home empty-handed.
1. Where was the narrator?
2. Why was he there?
3. Why did his heart sink?

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