And that's how it starts. From that point on we are slowly brought into the world of Takers and Leavers. But what does takers and leavers mean? How do you define who's a taker and who's a leaver? Should it be done by the similarities of each individual people, or the differences between both peoples? For the sake of this essay, the differences will be used to distinguish between Takers and Leavers. Just how different are they? Worlds apart would be a good answer. The interesting aspect of pointing out the differences between Takers and Leavers is that it offers us a viewpoint on which to base our decisions about how to get from Taker to Leaver, assuming this is the goal most readers would attain after having read the novel. A good place to start would be to define each and see where the definitions differ.

And that is indeed where the paper will start. What does Taker culture represent? What does the word itself, given diplomatically to the narrator's people by Ishmael at the beginning of their sessions, mean? (P-38) The narrator was

quick to note that lumping his culture and that of everyone else into two groups was problematic. Ishmael's response was non-pitiful and referred to Taker culture's own "heavily loaded" terms, civilized and uncivilized. These are obviously too broad of terms to base a conclusion on, so break it down. The term "Civilized," according to Encarta, means "having advanced cultural and social development." Well that doesn't help much in the search for the differences between Taker and Leaver peoples. But it's not completely useless. It is also described as being "refined," or in this case, generally above the rest of nature. Takers have climbed out of the wild jungle, away from the mess and the slime and are ultimately "unique and infinitely apart from all the rest." (P-102) They hold their heads high and are proud to live unbounded by the laws of nature. The earth was created for them and whatever in it they might find a use for, they were free to take it and do what they may desire with it. A good word that sums it up is Arrogant.

What's important to understand is that the differences between Taker and Leaver are what have to change

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