Takers In Ishmael

Throughout the novel, Ishmael and his friends begin to those their humanity and become completely different individuals because of their exposure to the war. The

“I hate getting flashbacks from things I don't want to remember. ”“In violence, we forget who we are.” these are some of the quotes that come to mind when I think of the violence and the consequences and after effect that Ishmael experience in the novel. Throughout the novel Ishmael encountered many deadly and violent events. From his experiences I have learned that the consequences and aftereffects of violence makes a person feel as though they are losing himself and/ or as though they are dying a little on the inside, many lives may or may have been taken, are some of the lesson I learned from his experiences.

American author, Daniel Quinn in his novel, Ishmael, questions the path of humanity and the grim effects of the rise of man on the surrounding world by analyzing the extent of damage that has been caused by mankind conquering the community of life and not participating as an equal. He utilizes irony and allusions through the beginning till the end of his novel to illuminate to the readers that when mother culture ceases to be heard, inspiration will be present for the takers to stop enacting a story in which captives of a civilizational system in which the world was conquered and destroyed for the takers to live exempted from the community of life.

Ishmael had hope at the beginning trying to push through all of the struggles he had to a child soldier with no hope but just the mindset to kill back to a boy with hope and dreams to fulfill. Ishmael Beah's characterization in order to show how Ishmael had hard struggles changing he had hope at the beginning then eventually gave up on himself, but then he went to rehab and got better with the thought of hope in his mind, along with many conducive people pushing him to get better. It is important to show how the characteristic development of Ishmael is because It shows how his mind changed about everything, and his life changed drastically for him during the war times when he was a child

The book is based on actual events and is expressed through a personal point of view. Ishmael wrote a memoir that tells the story of a young boy who is torn from his peaceful life, and then forced into a frightening world of drugs and slavery. In writing about his experiences, he has made the decision to present his experiences in a particular way by missing out details and recounting others. This

Ishmael is about a young scientist that can telepathically speak with a gorilla named Ishmael who will soon to be the teacher. Ishmael taught himself his education when he was able to talk to his owner telepathically to get him books. Ishmael helps the narrator realize that we can’t just take whatever we want from the environment and all of its resources. The narrator sees Ishmael for days in a row but ends up having to miss days to see him. He then finds Ishmael at a traveling carnival to finish the lesson they had. The narrator has an idea of buying Ishmael from the carnival owners and finally when he got enough money to buy the gorilla, Ishmael dies.

He didn’t know how to act or what to say but all his uncle could do was tear up and remember Ishmael’s resemblance of his dad. Ishmael then slowly open up to his uncle and goes home with his uncle. In conclusion, No matter how hard your past was you can overcome it with caring supporters by your side. The message in the book is really motivational to me, it make me feel like life is too precious to hold on to the past and not move on towards the future. Throughout the story Ismael had supporters who motivate him to keeping him going. Now he is a successful man who lives in New

Ismael is novel that pointe it in that the human need to change their way of life and they have to stop what they doing to the world. According to Ishmael the human destroyed the world and kill the animals like the gorillas. Ishmael is gorilla he said the men destroying the world and they have to stop doing what they do. He and the narrator are describing everything in the world what happen in the world right now. They make the people to parts takers and leavers. Philosophy of this story that the people have to know how the other things around them look to them. The human think they are the best in this world, but Ishmael said that the human is destroying the world. Each them in the book has purpose to say it in the book. For example,

Ishmael shows that he is all of these poor qualities because he spends most of his time making himself microscopic to Barry Bagsley, the school bully. Ishmael does not put his hand up knowing Barry will mock and ridicule him. This demonstrates that Ishmael is panic stricken whenever it comes to facing Barry or when- ever he is in sight. Ishmael does not dare to go near Barry on the yard knowing that he will endure taunts and a variety of insults. When Ishmael states “Sometimes I couldn't even recognize myself” (p. 21) It makes evident that Ishmael’s self esteem is immensely affected by Barry in class and on the school

Inequality has been a trending problem in society and over recent time it has been getting even worse. Wealthy groups often misuse their resources to take advantage of the poor to keep moving up. “Ishmael” by Daniel creates an interesting philosophy that reflects upon the social conflict theory through the eyes of the narrator and the teacher, Ishmael. However, it is not a traditional story as it lacks major character development. Quinn wrote it to teach as opposed to entertain. Ishmael encourages both the reader and the narrator to think outside of the box. The lessons are taught through the symbols of the Takers, Leavers, and Mother Culture.

Ishmael talks about how Mr. Sokolow was really interested in Nazi Germany and he tells the narrator that the reason Hitler was so successful was due to his ability to tell a story that people could believe. Ishmael went on to talk about how Mother Culture is feeding a story that’s so extensive we don’t even listen to it anymore, but it educates us about every moment of our lives. Ishmael is essentially trying to help the narrator hear the story and see his culture from an outsider’s perspective. However, Ishmael went through some

Ishmael was adopted by his Uncle and met his Uncles wife and kids and then a new leader ruled the government and let the prisoners out and let them kill civilians and Ishmael's uncle got sick and took care of

The Leavers do not exempt themselves from the laws of competition while the Takers do. The Takers, in exempting themselves from these laws, exterminate and remove all forms of competition in their way. In a lesson where the narrator role-plays as a Taker trying to convince Ishmael, a Leaver, to live his life-style (p222) he comes upon the conclusion that being human is living on your own terms rather than the gods’ and this is what separates us from the animals (p225). It is Mother Culture who teaches this since the day we’re born (p37), that we should live on our own terms rather than the gods’ and that we know good and evil and evil is living by chance. Thus, Takers are on a quest to find the one right way to do things and hence all our laws and such contrivances come into being. Controlling the world and the universe is the primary goal of the Takers so they no longer have to live in any sort of fear and as such they are a culture of the new whereas the Leavers are a culture of tradition (p205).

The main takeaway from Ishmael by Daniel Quinn is the way Ishmael portrayed Takers in relation to the peacekeeping law and how he uses the Taker Thunderbolt analogy to show human ignorance towards this law. Ishmael describes the peacekeeping law as “... the law that keeps the community from turning into the howling chaos the Takers imagine it to be. It’s the law that fosters life for all…” (Quinn, 124) According to Ishmael, the Takers could not act in accordance with the law because they did not know such a law existed, much like how the airman in the Taker Thunderbolt did not realize that he was falling instead of flying.

I think that the themes of nature, harmony, moving to a different place and feeling like you do not fit within a certain context are all fairly central to my life. I could connect very well with how she felt about nature, and I think that the traits she mentioned for a community are very accurate. Some of the traits she mentioned such as “playfulness,” “expressiveness,” and an “empathetic relationship to animals” surprised me because they would not come to my mind if I thought about the traits of a community. Overall, I liked her writing style and appreciated her views and story as a minority and person of