The Sudden Change, Ishmael Chapter 10

This Chapter starts with the boring life of our protagonist, were he misses to go to Ishmael for some days now. He is trapped into work and appointments. After he goes back to the building, it is closed, and no clues to follow. I at first didn't see this coming, but now I can think of it as maybe Ishmael's way of telling him that if he was not 100% committed, there was no way Ishmael could continue teaching him. Thats why he's had so many students. But the protagonist is desperate to find him, he even puts and add on the newspaper"FRIENDS OF ISHMAEL: Another friend has lost contact. Please call and tell me where he is."(pg.193). Finally he finds Ishmael on an old and typical carnival, sitting on a dim corner. So the building got closed down, so Ishmael had to leave and rot on a carnival cage? Ishmael's voice and mood is different now, he is tired and maybe afflicted. But he (the protagonist) can't understand why. Neither do I. He has a hostile behaviour, not one known to us until now. He suggests to unite Ishmael with his passed students, and to maybe set up a place, so he can get out of this mental- tying prison. What is wrong with Ishmael? But it seems that Ishmael has no wishes what so ever to be helped out, he seems finished. Imagine this devastation for both of them. "Just go away and leave me alone"(pg 197) says Ishmael. So finally our protagonist just walks away. After some hours he manages himself a bribe to get into the carnival's premises and continues his lecture, as if nothing had happened with Ishmael...

It starts of with culture. Culture was born when the members of a certain group began to attain intelligence enough to pass on to the next generation, what was really important in their way of living. And therefore what we have today is the product of what was in the past, just a tradition. But ten thousand years ago, in the rise of our culture, our ancestors claimed that those ideas were not a real way of life(but how could they now, if it worked perfectly fine for the leavers?), and decided to live differently, that being the case now a days we ended up with a diversity of cultures and beliefs, that is the root to our problems because of our different beliefs and practices. For us there was no before, we are the cradle of civilization, hen we know for a fact we are not. So how could we survive without previous knowledge? Well that must be the only thing we preserved, information about production. If that worked well, why not transmit that same idea? Because we, in this generation don't really know what is best for us, we are now seeking welfare know, we want more, and better, ambition now conquers welfare. We forgot how to live. The people of our culture need a new Moses, Jesus, or Mahoma, we need new directions, in my point of view we have strayed of our main course in life: pass on culture and preserve humanity. "The Takers accumulate knowledge about what works well for things. The leavers accumulate knowledge of what works for people"(pg.206) But today, We takers dont have the wisdom to know what is best for people. We stomped on Leavers, and now are left with nothing. 

For me, this chapter was one of the most different ones, in the sense that it mixes what happens to the characters, with the teachings, so it makes it a situation in which the way of teaching is much different because of the mood.