What is Organ Inc Farms?

What is the Pigoon Project and what is the idea behind it?

What do the pigoons look like and where are they kept? (25-26)

Why is it specified in the promotional material that that defunct pigoons do not end up as bacon or sausages? Do you believe that is true?

How does the child Jimmy feel about the pigoons and why? What do you think?

Describe some of the climactic changes that have taken place (24) and their consequences.

Describe the Organic Inc Compound where Jimmy lives with his parents. What kind of set-up is it? What type of people live there? Why does Jimmy’s father compare the compounds to medieval castles? What is the implication of that comparison?

Where do regular people live and what is it like there?

What impression do we get of Jimmy’s mother?

What is the spoat/gider?

Describe the Watson-Crick Compound and some of the interesting bio-forms to be found there.

Why does Jimmy not want to get into what is the real thing with Crake? (200)

How does Crake live in this compound? How do the conditions here compare with Jimmy’s conditions at Martha Graham? Why is there this difference?

Describe the Smart Wallpaper concept. What do you think is the idea behind it?

What are ChickyNobs? What do they look like and what is the idea behind them?

How does Jimmy react to the ChickyNobs? What do you think?

What are the wolvogs and what is the purpose of them?

Comment on Jimmy’s observation Why is it he feels some line has been crossed, some boundary transgressed. What is the line or boundary he is talking about and what do you think of what is going at Watson-Crick?

What are relations between the sexes like at Watson-Crick? Why is pair bonding discouraged and how do they deal with the issue?

Jimmy comment on the food being real at Watson-Crick. What does that tell you about the conditions of food production in this society of the future?

What is the scenario Crake draws (210-212)? What has the drug company HealthWyzer been doing for years and why?

What has happened to Crake’s father and why?

What-if any- is the connection to Jimmy’s mother?

What are they doing at Paradice? Describe the Crakers and the ideas behind the design of them?

Explain Crake’s and Jimmy’s discussion of immortality (303).

Describe how the primate brain has been changed in these new creatures and with what effect.

How does Jimmy react and why? What do you think?