Ishmael
(Daniel Quinn)
This book is basically an anthropological conversation between a gorilla and a human man about human society. I found it fascinating because of the way the author chose to analyze human society. It's not a common viewpoint and it gives the reader more possibilities of what life is really like or could be percieved to be like by someone who hasn't been influenced by any of our cultures and so can look with unclouded at eyes at the society that we live in. Daniel Quinn gives a thorough analysis of several different sections of our society and clearly manages to demonstrate how it could be percieved to be possible that our society could be based entirely on a myth or at the very least a mistaken interpretation of the knowledge we already have. The character of the gorilla is that of a teacher and the human man is a student. It seems to be the perfect choice in order to get the author's point across. Gorillas are one of the animal genuses that we are closely related to and it makes sense that sooner or later they would evolve to the same point we have, moved ahead of us or gone in a completely different direction evolutionary wise. It's the kind of story that makes you think about everything you already know or think you know because it calls into question all the knowledge that you've gained in your life and that's a very good thing in my opinion becuase we are always learning new things about ourselves. What's true today may not be entirely true or at least not accurate tomorrow. There are always new historical documents and records turning up and documents that have been surpressed in the past are now beginning to be brought forward into the public eye.
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