Summary Of Ishmael: No Imbalance Or Overconfidence

Ishmael is an African American male from Sierra Leone, approximately 14-16 years old upon his arrival at the Benin Home a psychosocial therapy treatment center in Sierra Leone. He arrives with several other boys, but no identified family members, no relationship status. No particular religious affiliations but does describe some form of cultural spirituality. Medical examination shows no significant nutritional or physical abnormalities. No identified residence, as such deemed homeless.

The third part to the human dilemma is that all nonhuman species have evolved to survive their physical habitats, and the human species originally evolved to do this as well. However, human beings have altered the world more in the last ten thousand years, than the ancestors did in the first four million years. We have changed the environment to fit our needs, instead of changing our needs to fit the environment. Most importantly, humans have built entirely new environments, such as farms, villages, cities and towns. The cycling pattern of human expansion and creations has changed the human race from small groups of hunters and gatherers, into a very complex civilization.

In contrast to the upheaval of animals in a development area, humans also make efforts to preserve biodiversity and forests by creating wild life

Ishmael’s point is that human culture operates under a creation myth where man is the climax of evolution even though the universe continues to develop and evolution is still occuring, man assumes that the Earth was made for them, since they were its ultimate creation and final product. The narrator then concludes that the premise of the Taker’s story is that "the world was made for man" (Quinn) (61). The jellyfish story gives another

The book says how we were put on this earth to conquer it and make it our own paradise, but because of us being imperfect beings, we are bound to ruin it. On the contrary, it is argued that man’s only flaw is that we do not know how we “ought to live.” The answer is provided by the ways of nature, but as takers, we refuse to abide by the laws of nature and live as civilized beings in no need of the gods to tell us how to live. It is argued that the beliefs of man as being inherently flawed is due to our destructive behavior. We do not give ourselves enough credit for being human. Man is perfectly capable of living in harmony with the earth without destroying it if we took responsibility for our treatment of it. This has to do with the inherent goodness of man. Humans, before the time of modern civilization, did live in harmony with the earth and took only what they needed from it, just like the animals now. Mankind taking over the world used to not even be part of the question, but then evolution continued and we somehow started to believe we have a purpose here. To rule the earth. We think we are building up the world, but we are actually destroying

Ishmael explains how the gods tricked the takers in three ways. One, is that they made the takers think the Earth revolves around them. Two, is that the humans think that they are above evolution and advanced. Three, is the humans aren’t excused from the laws of life. Ishmael explains to the narrator that the takers are eventually going to “crash and burn.”

In the book, Ishmael An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit, Ishmael is a talking gorilla that believes that the world is in a very rough spot. He believes it is due to humans acting like dictators and destroying this world. His reasoning comes from his time with Walter Sokolow; Walter was his owner of a portion of his life. Walter loved the Nazis and decided to give Ishmael unlimited amounts of books, so he could teach him and the knowledge Ishmael gained were truly astonishing. He has an unbiased upon because he has read all types of literature and has looked at all of the different aspects as well as not being human gives his insight on various types of human behaviors, without leaving any out. He believes that we must do better in order

The narrator of the story sees an advertisement put up by a teacher who was looking for a student interested in saving the world. This upset him because he spent years when he was younger looking for a teacher with the same interest. The narrator goes to the address on the advertisement even though he thought it was a hoax. He lands up in a large, almost empty office which eventually leads him to another room where he finds a gorilla sitting. He then hears a voice communicating with him in his head which he realizes is the gorilla talking to him telepathically. The gorilla, named Ishmael tells the narrator about his life. He was captured from the West African jungles and taken to the United States and kept in a zoo. He was then sold to a travelling circus during the Great Depression. He found out he was called Goliath and thought about his disappointing life in captivity.

Ishmael Beah is someone who has lived through a lot. As a child, he grew up in Mattru Jong, Sierra Leone. His life was changed when war came into his country. Here, we will be exploring the transition from being an innocent child to becoming a soldier, to being a scarred adult.

After reading this section of the novel I learned that regardless of someone’s upbringing or even their personality, we can all be friends. In the novel, Ishmael notices Queequeg, the savage, sitting alone and counting the pages of a book. Ishmael watched him with interest, he was taking note of Queequeg’s behavior and social awareness and it amazed him that Queequeg can be so at ease. I feel that society has forced people to act and talk a certain way but those who don’t follow this unspoken rules is looked at as an outsider. What Ismael realized is that we are all human and we can all bond. Ishmael decided to approach Queequeg and after some talking they began to smoke together. This is when Ishmael realized that he had developed a strong

Ishmael’s high school friends find his past interesting because of the fact that Ishmael witnessed war. They thought it cool that Ishmael saw guns and violence, for they didn’t know the whole extent of the situation and what all it entails. In my opinion, if they read this book, their perspective will change drastically. They will see how lucky privileged they are to now have the memories of such violence embedded in their heads. The high school kids were unaware that Ishmael was a child soldier. I believe that if they read this book and found out all Ishmael has been through, then they wouldn’t take the matter so lightly. Ishmael’s high school friends have never witnessed the cruelty of war, so I don’t believe that they fully processed the

Another very important scene is Ishmael learning who he is. He leads Narrator from the scene of the tiger to his own self-realisation who he his. Ishmael develops the scene from being a captive in a zoo to being sold to a menagerie where he learned from listening to the visitors the difference between himself and a female chimpanzee with a baby in the neighbouring wagon. Ishmael connected over time the different sounds visitors addressed the chimpanzee and him to names visitors were giving them both. A minor leap allowed Ishmael to realise that everything has a name. Despite all efforts at that stage Ishmael was unable to determine the difference between humans and animals. One day a visitor he greatly admired came and after a lengthy observation

Human beings engage in a wide range of behaviors that pose a threat to wildlife. Some of these behaviors include the destruction of their natural habitat, the rise of the fashion and food industry where some species are consumed as food while others’ skin and bones are used in the fashion industry. According to Sodhi, Brook, and Bradshaw, (2009), change in human behavior is a direct threat to the survival of plant and animal species thus significantly contributing to the extinction of some of the species. It is imperative to note that all human activities ranging from urbanization, population growth have a direct impact on animal species. Extinction as a threat to many animal species where some cease to exist due to failure to ensure sustainability in reproduction. The trend seems to be coinciding with Charles Darwin theory of

There are three things that Takers do that Leavers never do. The first is that Takers exterminate their competitors. They kill more than they need, and also just kill things just for the point of killing. Leavers only kill things that they need for food right at that point in time, and they also only kill in self-defense. The next thing that Takers do is that, not only do they kill outside of their means, but they systematically destroy their competitors food to make room for their own. Lastly, they deny competitors access to said food. According to Quinn, it is okay to not give access to what you are currently eating, but everything else is fair game for everyone. The law of limited competition states that you may compete to the full extent

Since then we have begun to realise the damage that has been done in the name of progress and civilization, alas too late. Countless species of flora and fauna have