The Last Lap. Chapter 12

To buy Ishmael,to take him into care wouldn't be an easy task. But the protagonist is out for it, dealing the animal with the carnival owner. For now he is to expensive....

When they got into subject again:

"how did man become man"(pg 236) This is one of the most deep-rooted questions in the hole novel because it takes us back to nothing. We started of as being a bacteria and worked our way up as Australopithecus, when we were hunters and gatherers; Leavers. We accomplished this by living in the hands of the gods. But when we saw that we could have more food, so we didn't have to suffer tomorrow, we immediately shoved off of the gods hands. We immediately became Takers: Homo Sapiens Sapiens. But thanks to living on the gods hands we were able to evolve and were able to say: "we've had enough of living in the hands of gods" (pg 238). So according to the Taker story, when we appeared, creation stopped. but what I really think about this is that creation can never stop, not because we are here, it means we stop evolving. But the damage we are making to Earth, is sooner or later, not stop creation only, but Humanity. "The premise of the Taker story is that the world belongs to man. The premise of the Leaver story is that man belongs to the world." (pg. 239). I agree totally on the Leaver story, because we all came from the same place, and this is how things came to be this way. So why necessarily the world has to belong to men? Do we own a deed or something that demands property? We don't. So I am on The Leaver side, because we, on the other side do belong to the world, either you want it or not. "We were never meant to be the only players on this stage" (pg 242). Why do we keep on damaging the planet, and not going by the peace-keeping law? We are not the only ones here. Why do we have to exterminate other species only so we can have "the right way of living"? I am in total disagree with our culture. 

approaching the end of the novel, He repeats the first line of the novel "Must earnestly desire to save the world" (pg 248) He asks Ishmael how to achieve this; how to save the world. "The story of Genesis must be reversed. First Cain, must stop murdering Abel. This is essential if you're to survive. The Leavers are the endangered species most critical to the world- not because they're humans but because they alone can show the destroyers of the world that there is no one right way to live. And then of course, you must spit out the fruit of the forbidden tree. You must absolutely and forever relinquish the idea that you know who should live and who should die n this planet." "Yes , I see all that , but that's a program for mankind, that's not a program for me. What do I do" "What you do is to teach a hundred what I've taught you , and inspire each of them to teach a hundred." (pg 248). And this is why we are reading this novel. Quinn was our own Ishmael teaching us, so we can teach too. " What you are saying is that someone has to stand up and become to the world of today, what Saint Paul was to the Roman Empire." (pg 249). We are in desperate need of someone that is able to guide us towards salvation of the human raze, and the world. This can be related to the movie Matrix Revolutions, when Neo (Reeves) is the chosen one to save the city of Zion containing all human raze in it. That is just what we need, or at least something similar to it. 

"You understand that I'm finished with you."(pg  253) This is how Ishmael's teachings resolute, and all that our protagonist could do was nod, but deep inside, the reader can tell, he is miserable, because he knows he has become close to this primate, and he doesn't want to leave him. But as far as I know he wont, I'm sure of it.