Quote Respond Ishmael (pg.75)

“In order to become fully human, man had to pull himself out of the slime. And all this is the result. As the takers see it, the gods gave man the same choice they gave Achilles: a brief life of glory or a long, uneventful life in obscurity. And the takers choose a brief life of glory.”

In this quote it made me think a lot about it and I actually went into the deep side of it. I was relating it to a passage that I had read earlier in the chapter before in which gave me a perspective of what this quote meant. It was really making me think that Ishmael was giving a message in this book and his meaning to the quote was relating us the human beans to a gorilla like him. If the humans didn’t have the earth they wouldn’t be able to survive and if the earth was with out us earth wouldn’t insist. Through the years world has turned us really materialistic and we have learned how to live with out materials. What he was trying to say was, he was giving a choice of what humans would actually choose in the world than and animal in earth. Because a big percentage of humans would rather lived fewer years but full of riches and an animal won’t mind un less his happy and warm and has food to eat.

Ishmael

What are the Ishmaels thoughts on how things come to be?
Ishmael’s thoughts were and seemed to be deep and interesting in a way that he wanted to learn a lot from the outside of the captivity that he was in. As he begins to talk to this man he begins to learned things. He learned from the humans but his thoughts bring him to more questions. As he thinks about what the man is telling him his thoughts make him want to learned more stuff because he also wanted to learn about human nature and how this came to be. Most of he’s thoughts were just questionable because as the man and him began to talk they both began to learned from each other. Overall he is learning from his thoughts.

What are you confused by or need clarity on regarding the text?
I enjoyed chapter three with not a bit of a problem. In that chapter I got a well understood of how this man and gorilla began a conversation like this. I learned to see the different perspectives of each one. I got a bit of confusion in chapter four because through out my reading when I read a small passage may me go back and kind of paused for a second and think about it. This text seemed a little difficult to understand at first but after having a well understanding of each chapter and getting to know this I got a good understanding.