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Essay / Embracing Being Forced - 1203
The so-called "Takeers' Story", probably sums up the subject of Daniel Quinn's novel "Ishmael", which defines a certain way in which humans act , and from which arises the question: “how do things happen like this”. By defining the story that our society lives in a world of superiority and inferiority, it exposes the fact that we are in prison. This prison keeps people in captivity. This prison is you, me and them, in the story of the takers. The prison is symbolically the story that humans are forced to play out, "the story of the takers", where the "takers" themselves live a patriarchal life of domination and oppress those less than them. The assumption that there are people inferior to us. , therefore subordinate to us, is seen in many different ways, beyond just the breast of the human race. Just as some people feel more than others, the same is felt by non-human living beings on this planet. Animals are at the center of ownership. Most of the time, they don't matter when it comes to suffering. There is a very important premise at the beginning of the novel that completely contributes to the meaning of this novel as a whole. It's an assumption that surprises people with biased thinking. This shows exactly what the book focuses on. People have very strong reactions to certain things that are out of the ordinary. For most people, there was enormous discomfort and confusion with having a gorilla playing the role of a teacher at first. The gorilla had to teach by the book. He was about to become the smartest person in the novel. In other words, he was like a sage endowed with wisdom. There was a hypothesis of misunderstanding of the text because there is no way on earth that a gorilla, a kind of animal, could teach us and...... middle of paper ..... . in a man it is he capable of doing the work because women are not intelligent enough. The other important reason behind this is that all these professions have some sort of power and the mentality is that men have the power. In a patriarchal society, men control women, and in the past this was extreme abuse. This type of oppression is the kind of inequality we have always faced. It happens to everyone, African Americans, Latinos, Asians, women and even men. The fact that people think they have power over others and are 100 times better is what is destroying our community on earth. The point is, if there are dominant groups and subordinate groups, shouldn't there necessarily be those at the very top? Isn't there one group that must be the most powerful? Indeed, there must be, because then who had these ideas in the first place? ??