Ishmael and Maya Angelou
There are many different views on how people should live our lives. All of these different philosophies come from many different places. They come from religions, people's cultures, and their morals that they have been taught. People live by these rules they were brought into from the day they are born and do not question them. In "A Rock, A River, A Tree", by Maya Angelou and Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn, both attempt to show how humans should live their lives and survive in a community. There way of changing the world is to convince readers to stand up and speak out about how to save the world. Daniel Quinn specificly helps readers to see that our lives are governed by matured laws that humans refuse to acknowledge-- this causing their, our destruction. In Ishmael Daniel Quinn sets the idea of having to think differently by having the book being told my a man who's teacher is a talking Gorilla. The Gorilla's name is ironicly Ishmael. Ishmael teaches captivity which he has been in his whole life and has mastered. As a Gorilla he has a totally different view on the world. He states in many ways that he believes that we must stand up for saving the world. In the beginning of the book Ishmael is talking about
"very simply with hope Good Morning", she is showing that just a little bit of hope and standing with your head up high will help. Both of these works are trying to get you to change in they way humans live, but the difference is that in Ishmael, Quinn tries to use a scare tactic on getting people to stand up. He tries to put almost a panic in human kind and more of a overthrow how we are living and start fresh. In "A Rock, A River, A Tree", Angelou hits more of a emotional cord, she tries to make people think twice and reform the way you are living instead of starting over. Angelou doesn't sound as if she is looking for a revolution as much as Quinn does.
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Approximate Word count = 985
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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