What Makes Ishmael Gorilla

Ishmael, an adventure of the mind and spirit, written by Daniel Quinn takes the reader on the journey through human history and allows us to get a bird’s eye view of our flaws. In Ishmael, a nameless character finds an ad that talks about saving the world and this invoked memories of the movement in 1960s lead by the “hippies”. Since it angered him that people were living this lifestyle, he considered useless for some reason he decides to respond to the ad. What he finds is a gorilla, at first. he wonders why a gorilla is in the place of this “teacher” from the ad. Little does he know, the gorilla is the teacher and he is far beyond the level of an average gorilla. Soon after confronting this gorilla, he comes to find out that this gorilla's …show more content…
Sokolow and Ishmael develop a deep relationship but a human can’t be friends with an animal like this, according to society standards. Life moved on and Mr. Sokolow got married then had a kid, unlike Mr. Sokolow his wife did not like Ishmael. She had made many attempts to rid their family of him, but their child had grown up with Ishmael and he taught her many different things. When the time came for Mr. Sokolow to pass away, he made sure his daughter would be the one who inherited him. She would then become Ishmael's caretaker upon until a couple months before Ishmael had took the narrator under his …show more content…
Now the mark of the taker’s time does not mean the leaver’s story was over. Contrary to the leavers, the takers have very destructive ideals and motives, each generation didn’t care for the last. It’s as if every generation was is it’s own, the only thing passed along were the basics of producing. Many of the characteristics Ishmael describes of takers are visible in modern society. In today’s society, we moving away from traditions and as I said every generation is basically starting anew. An average person these days are always concerned about money, they are always looking to expand even at the cost of others (Gauraw, 2013). This has been a major problem within recent history, not with just humans doing at the cost of other humans but the environment as well. A great example of this is the removal Native Americans when white settlers came into the picture. Another name for these new colonists could expansionists as they were looking to expand their nation’s land and power (Chiras, 2016). The natives being some of the few leaver cultures left didn’t want to start problems with these new people (takers), of course, there were a few groups who didn’t believe in making peace decide to start a war. This lead to the takers forcing the leavers on to reserves and limited their freedom. Unlike the leavers, these takers