Ishmael
Human beings are destroying the world. It’s a fact we all know. Pollution is abundant, we chop down rainforests, we kill our own kind, we steal, lie, and cheat, and the list could go on and on. Daniel Quinn believes that this destruction comes from something more extreme than just the notion to survive. In his novel, Ishmael, Quinn believes that the problems facing humanity are do to man’s knowledge of good and evil. Man’s knowledge of good and evil gives us the power to rule the world any way we please. A God or Gods no longer have control. Once Adam, who represents the life of the human race, took a bite from the fruit of the tree of knowledge man’s fate was sealed. This knowledge insured, “Man was born
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Approximate Word count = 496
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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