The Next Day Ishmael Chapter 6 Summary

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Chapter 6:
The next day Ishmael starts off by comparing Taker culture and the first aeronauts aka travelers in a hot-air balloon and how today goal was to find a clean and a conclusive law in the way of living. Ishmael goes on by saying a metaphor on gravity. The narrator agrees that no one did not know about gravity. So Ishmael asks the narrator how the law is discovered then in which the narrator replies through studying it. Then Ishmael begins talking about the Takers and the ways the gods have tricked the Takers. The first way was the Takers act like they are the center of the world but they are not. Second, humans and everything else evolved at the same pace even though humans might feel like they evolved more. Lastly, they are a part of the life laws and are not exempt from them. Ishmael backs this up by telling a story about an early try at flight. The narrator then says that people will continue to do things over and over again if the Takers culture is in danger and with that being said, Ishmael agrees.

Chapter 7:
Ishmael tells the narrator to picture a land where everyone is peaceful and happy. He asks three groups of people the A's, B's, and C's. He first visits the C’s, which say that they eat the B's, and the B's explain that they
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The narrator clarifies that the Leavers saw the Takers as foreign to them. For the Leavers to understand why the Takers were attacking their land they had to figure out their thought process. So, they thought the Takers took the Gods wisdom and were using it for own their kind, so the Takers dismissed them from the garden of life, forcing the Leavers to get their food by farming. Ishmael asks the narrator to review what they have discussed. The narrator said that it is not right to have the knowledge of the gods, but the argument of misbehavior. The narrator and Ishmael both agree that the story told from the view makes more

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