In the book Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, Ishmael talks about how the world came to be. “A story is a scenario interrelating man, the world, and the gods” (Quinn 41). He described two groups of people, the Leavers and the Takers. The leavers are the early humans who hunted and gathered their food, the Takers are the modern day humans who use up resources to survive. The Takers call themselves civilized and the Leavers primitive because they believe that their way of living is how humans were meant to live. “To enact a story is to live so as to make the story a reality” (Quinn 41). The way the takers are living is making the story real. The beginning of the Taker’s story begins with the Leavers. The Leavers were described as being a different culture
