There are two characters those are Chinese boy and big gorilla in the story . Although they are human and mammal they were sincere friends . The gorillas ’ name was Hanno who was born in the African Congo . There are five members in his family . But hunter killed his family except for him . And he was captured by them . Since then he was raised by keeper in the zoo . One day some children stopped by zoo with their teacher . one of them was a Chinese boy . His name was Ping . After that he lived in the forest of China . But some stranger took away his dad and mom . His house was burnt by strangers . He came to England and then he became a refugee . When Ping saw a Hanno fist , he reminded of his sad past . And soon he started to worry about Hanno ’ s sad feeling . Actually between them there are many common things . They are all lonely and lived in the concrete building . After a few days Ping read an article about Hanno in the newspaper . According to the article Hanno escaped from the zoo . So people are looking for him here and there . But Ping was so happy to hear about the news . He hoped that Hanno will be free forever . Ping has two close friends who have always been spending time during every vacation . They have a hiding place where is located in forest . Actually the house was a vacant . But from this summer vacation owner moved to the house . So they asked for new owner that they want to stay there during vacation . Fortunately she said ‘ Yes ’. But only Ping can stay there with new owner , Mrs Oldknow . Every day after breakfast Ping went to the forest and then rest there . one day he and Hanno met by accident . Ping was much nervous but he remembered cautions against wild gorilla . And as he learned he did . As time goes by they are familiar and share sincere feelings . But people are still looking for Hanno . And one day they find out Hanno and fired into him . All people thought that Hanno was much dangerous animal . But Ping knew that he just hope free life and saved Ping from danger .