Ishmael

The story begins with Ishmael, and his brother Junior, living in the town of Mogbwemo, Sierra Leone. The brothers travel to Mattru Jong to meet up with friends and perform their dance routine. While they are staying in Mattru Jong they learn that their town was attacked by the RUF, otherwise known as the rebels. They stay at a friend’s house in Mattru Jong, while they search for their family. The RUF attack Mattru Jong and capture the city. Ishmael and Junior flee into the forest, but they get…

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit, by Daniel Quinn, is a philosophical work of fiction that explores the human condition, the environmental state of the planet, and how we as humans have the power to determine this environmental state into the future. The novel relies heavily on the rhetorical device of anthropomorphism to give voice to one of the main characters of the book, a gorilla named Ishmael, who speaks telepathically. Ishmael uses this ability to spread his teachings -…

“‘At our age, it’s more complicated for the rebels. So they use stronger stuff, like drugs or money, to bait us and to make us march…I remember the attack on Njola-Kombouya village, in the south of Sierra Leone. They made us wake up at 1 in the morning and we marched until 7. A doctor came. He had a small bowl of cold water, and, every two injections, he rinsed his needle in the water. It was always a small vial with red liquid. At first, I constantly felt weak and then after, I had a sense of…

environment in which they experience community stigma” (NIH Public Access 10). This study found that family and community acceptance was associated with higher levels of adaptive/prosocial attitudes and behaviors with the child soldiers as was the case for Ishmael…

At around 6 o’clock that day, Queequeg and Ishmael notice that there are sailors that are beginning to board the Pequod. They figure that the Pequod is leaving sooner or later. While making their way towards the ship, the two run into Elijah. Elijah asks if there were four or five men that boarded the ship, Ishmael replies with a yes and explains that it was hard to tell because of how dim it was outside. The two board the ship taking notice that it seems empty. The two wonder where Captain Ahab…

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…

Ishmael is a book that was written by Daniel Quinn. What led me to read this book was that the storyline of this book seemed more interesting than the other book options. The main story line of this book didn’t have much of an impact on me, but some smaller parts did. When Ishmael, who is the main character, was talking about being in captivity versus when he was in Africa it made me wonder what actual animals feel about living in zoos. This makes me think about when I go to zoos and see animals…

comment about being like the moon, Ishmael's grandmother notes that although people are often bothered by the bright light of the sun, few people ever complain about the moonlight. She tells him that good things happen under the light of the moon. Ishmael later comes to see the moon as a source of solace that provides him with encouragement. What’s in the wheelbarrow is a dead body wrapped in white bed sheets; he is taking it to the cemetery, I think he says that because he say his future if he…

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…

Ishmael Beah is a Sierra Leonean that was forced to become a soldier at a very young age. Growing up, the Rebels invaded Mogbwemo, his hometown, which caused him to be separated from his family. As a young child, he witnessed disaster take place before his eyes, day in and day out. There were rarely any moments in his life that did not cause him some form of psychological harm. Throughout the times of being a boy soldier, Ishmael was introduced to a lot of toxic things, drugs being one of the…