Chapter 1:
Chapter one starts out with the narrator noticing an advertisement in the new paper that was put there by a teacher looking for a pupil to save and change the world. So, the narrator goes to the address listed in the ad and walks I the room. In the room he finds a window in in the window he finds a gorilla. The narrator freaks out, but the voices in their head tell them to sit down; the gorilla was talking to him telepathically. Then the gorilla shows him his history. The gorilla, which we later find out that its name is Ishmael, was captured from the jungles of the West Africa and put him in a zoo that he in lived for awhile. Then, a man named Walter Sokolow buys Ishmael. They then move in together, and Mr. Sokolow becomes Ishmael's teacher and an accomplice. Through their friendship, Mr. Sokolow recovers from his grief from his family dying in the holocaust, marries, and has a daughter, named Rachel.
Ishmael then becomes Rachel’s mentor where she excels in school with his guidance. When her dad dies, Rachel takes care of Ishmael but he wanted to share what he knew with the world, he was not satisfied. She later found a way for him to do so and placed an advertisement in the newspaper. The narrator takes up …show more content…
Ishmael said he wanted to record his story. With that, he goes on to tell his story. The story includes the big bang theory, evolution, the formation of solar systems, and lastly the human. Then Ishmael tells his story. An anthropologist is taking a scroll, and he found a blob alive and asks for his story of the creation of life. The story the blob told was closely related to the one the narrator said but instead of it ending with the human it ended with the jellyfish. Ishmael told him that this is the idea about the Takers' culture (the narrator's story) and the Leavers (the blob's story). Ishmael gave him more homework that was to find out the next part of the
Chapter one starts out with the narrator noticing an advertisement in the new paper that was put there by a teacher looking for a pupil to save and change the world. So, the narrator goes to the address listed in the ad and walks I the room. In the room he finds a window in in the window he finds a gorilla. The narrator freaks out, but the voices in their head tell them to sit down; the gorilla was talking to him telepathically. Then the gorilla shows him his history. The gorilla, which we later find out that its name is Ishmael, was captured from the jungles of the West Africa and put him in a zoo that he in lived for awhile. Then, a man named Walter Sokolow buys Ishmael. They then move in together, and Mr. Sokolow becomes Ishmael's teacher and an accomplice. Through their friendship, Mr. Sokolow recovers from his grief from his family dying in the holocaust, marries, and has a daughter, named Rachel.
Ishmael then becomes Rachel’s mentor where she excels in school with his guidance. When her dad dies, Rachel takes care of Ishmael but he wanted to share what he knew with the world, he was not satisfied. She later found a way for him to do so and placed an advertisement in the newspaper. The narrator takes up …show more content…
Ishmael said he wanted to record his story. With that, he goes on to tell his story. The story includes the big bang theory, evolution, the formation of solar systems, and lastly the human. Then Ishmael tells his story. An anthropologist is taking a scroll, and he found a blob alive and asks for his story of the creation of life. The story the blob told was closely related to the one the narrator said but instead of it ending with the human it ended with the jellyfish. Ishmael told him that this is the idea about the Takers' culture (the narrator's story) and the Leavers (the blob's story). Ishmael gave him more homework that was to find out the next part of the