Book Report On Ishmael

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The book Ishmael is a critically claimed involving a gorilla named Ishmael, and a curious reader, who believed he could save the world about 10 years before he saw the ad of Ishmael and met Ishmael. Once the narrator meets Ishmael, he realizes that many of Ishmael’s opinions, he agrees with. As time passes on, Ishmael tells him stories such as the jellyfish story, while Ishmael tells the narrator about an anthropologist who realizes a blob, and after time, the blob turns into a jellyfish, and the anthropologist becomes famous for researching this “blob” and naming it a jellyfish. The agenda of this book is to guide you through the author’s beliefs and to tell you thorough stories to help better understand the author’s beliefs. The author

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