Quinn's Ishmael: Mistakes Of Mankind And Their Affect On The Human History

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an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person”(4).
This rather awkward request appeared in the personals section of the
newspaper. Because the bulk of the novel is narrated through the first-
person perspective of the man who answers this ad and becomes the
enlightened student, the reader never learns his name. However, he/she is
exposed to many important aspects of the student and his motivations. One
learns that decades ago he had actually been looking for such a teacher
during the children's revolt of the sixties and seventies but finally
concluded that no ne existed and that the new era was never going to begin.
This realization had embittered him to the point that seeing such a blatant
ad (in the newspaper of all places!) after he had given up hope outraged
him. His motivation for answering the ad was actually a simple desire to
find out what crook was behind the outrageous request so that he could put
it out of mind.
The meeting place for these two, as ...

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why humans go on destroying the Earth day by day while they keep
themselves busy with other, insignificant issues. Through a series of
exercises, Ishmael gets his student to realize that everyone in today's
modern society has accepted and is behaving as if: “The world was made for
man, and man was made to rule it”(74). The point is even made that
basically all mainstream religions support the fact that creation ended
with humans and that there is no need for humans to make room for the
greater things that evolution could make possible. The idea that we might
not be the end of the evolutionary chain would be hard for many people to
accept, but imagine for a moment if the dinosaurs had ...

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