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.