<Li> Crake, whose original name is Glenn, is Jimmy's childhood friend; an excellent student in high school, he becomes a brilliant geneticist and eventual mad scientist . He devises a plan to rid the earth of Homo sapiens and replace this destructive, poorly designed species with a more peaceful and environmentally friendly version . His player - name in Extinctathon is from the red - necked crake, a small Australian bird . In Robin Elliott's essay on Atwood, he explains the parallels between Glenn and the famous pianist Glenn Gould: the novel states that Glenn is named after a famous pianist, and Atwood has explained that Glenn, like the pianist, has Asperger syndrome . </Li> <Li> Oryx is a mysterious woman, recognized by Jimmy and Crake as the waif - like girl from a child pornography site . Crake hires her for sexual services and as a teacher to the Crakers, but she secretly becomes Jimmy's lover as well . After the catastrophe, her memory continues to haunt Snowman . Her name is from the oryx, an African antelope: "It's not even her real name, which he'd never known anyway; it's only a word . It's a mantra" (p. 110). She is described as likely originating from the South or South - East Asian region . </Li> <Li> Sharon is Jimmy's mother . She once worked at OrganInc like her husband, but stopped due to an untreated nervous breakdown related to her opposition to the bio-corporations' business . She is depressed and often fights with Jimmy's father . Jimmy vies for his mother's attention, but she spends much of her time sitting in her bathrobe and smoking . Eventually, Sharon runs away from the HelthWyzer compound, abandoning her son and taking his treasured genetically engineered pet rakunk named "Killer ." She takes up with various underground opposition groups, and is hunted by the deadly CorpSeCorps corporate security services . Jimmy is haunted by his mother's absence, and is visited often by CorpSeCorps inspectors attempting to track her whereabouts . </Li> <Li> Jimmy's father, unnamed in the book, works first for OrganInc and later for HelthWyzer as a scientist . He is heavily involved in the development of pigoons . He is more pragmatic about the morality of genetic splicing than his wife . After Jimmy's mother deserts the compound, he pursues a relationship with his laboratory technician, Ramona, and they eventually marry . </Li>

What happens to killer in oryx and crake
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