osen. However, Rachael is an android. Despite this fact, Deckard has emotions for her. He begins to question his feeling and emotions and what it means to be human. He longs for a real animal in order to provide care and nurturing to something that is ôrealö. He purchases a sheep but it dies because the androids caring for it are unable to provide such nurturing and care. This somehow makes Deckard recognize that being human is all about having a set of complex and varied emotions, feelings and moods. By the end of the book he will have experienced a complete reversal from his position at the beginning of the book. At the beginning he tries to make his wife, Iran, dial up any number of moods or emotions. He cannot understand why she would want to deal with things like depression or anger when she could easily rid herself of these feelings. However, by the end of the book he realizes it is exactly these kinds of human emotions and feelings that make humans distinct. He thinks of Rachael and how his sleeping with her and her killing his sheep make him feel in
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