Escape From Imprisonment-Chapter 12 Ishmael

Our lives are ones of imprisonment and captivity. Our Taker culture acts as a prison. There are those who are “rich and powerful” and those who are “poor and weak”. We may attain what we wish depending on our status within this community similar to the prisons that keep inmates all over the world. We need to escape the fences of this prison and live lives as Leavers do. “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.” (p.249) I thought that we would revert to a primitive culture; hunter gatherers as the Leavers are described in the novel. But Ishmael has a different idea “The Leaver life style isn’t about hunting and gathering, it’s about letting the rest of the community lice-and agriculturists can do that as well as hunter gatherers.”(p.250) Our culture causes us to destroy our world and no one even cares. We need to stop polluting, to save the world. As the pupil requires we are required to “have an earnest desire to save the world, (p.2) but we lack the motivation to do so. We must consider that other the world was not meant for us, that other species will soon take there place in our society as intelligent and capable of achieving what we have. It is our job to explore our world and attain the knowledge so that we may be as teachers to the next species as Ishmael is to his pupil. The dolphins, chimpanzees, and other species will soon enter our society and we must take them as if they were our children and we their father. But first we must escape this prison we have locked ourselves in. We must have the desire to save the world.