After reading the book “Ishmael” by the author Daniel Quinn, my mind has begun to expand and widen on the subject “How the world became this way?” Of course before reading this my mind was already set on the fact that us, humans, were the reason for this terrible tragedy. However studying this book further I have begun to learn more about how we are heading into chaos. At first I thought we were only causing minor damage but after reading “Ishmael” I have learned that we are doing so much more and why. In my essay I will explore my opinion of how we are gluttonous, brainless, human beings harming our own lives and how Ishmael wants us to fix it. I will examine how we have a mass contribution to destroying our planet and how I think Daniel Quinn …show more content…
Another quote I thought helped understand how greed hurts us is: “The deer eats the grass that’s there. It doesn’t cut the grass and save it for winter.” (Quinn, 128) Ishmael says this to the narrator as a reference that we feel like we need more all the time. “Take what you need and leave the rest alone.” (Quinn, 127) But instead of just taking what we need like Ishmael is instructing us to, we take more. Later in the book Ishmael explains to the protagonist how taking so much food leads to overpopulation, which then leads to a food scarce, then causing the population to dwindle. You can now see how something that can seem so small at first is leading to something so much more …show more content…
To explain how we think we are gods, and know all, so we are exempt from certain laws we should follow to keep the world living. “ Cut themselves off from a tradition that told them how to live.” (Quinn, 203) Ishmael uses this to clarify how we started to take matters in our own hands and did as we pleased. We think anything we do is great and nothing could ever be wrong with us or our knowledge. What we don’t know is if we do not listen to the laws we will surely destroy the world faster than it already