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Daniel Quinn's Ishmael
During the Ishmael novel, the author Daniel Quinn demonstrates how humans ought to live. According to Daniel Quinn this world is habited by two types of human. Depends on what he said, this worls is habited by Takers and Leavers, each one had their own way to live and they had different cultures. During this novel Daniel Quinn show us, if humanity still living in the same conditions they were, probably is that humans are going to destroy the whole world, causing death to all living things.
Throughout this novel, Daniel Quinn present a message that may help change the way of life of most people or in other words he is trying to save the world. Three very important points in the novel Ishmael that should be evaluated or that we should talk about are Evolution, Human Supremacy, and Mother Culture. These three main supports will help us to reflect on why we should change. One of the main supports that Daniel Quinn wrote, during this novel, talk about evolution. Depends on his wrote it was a very important thing until it stop by the humanity actions, and that evolution was inevitable, since humanity adapted a changing world in order to survive. He wrote too that evolution stop, because man has completely
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Daniel Quinn talk or argues against the idea of human supremacy on the planet. Human Supremacy is about humans that are considered the most evolutionary species ever exist on Earth, but they dont have the entitled control of the narute or control on other species. In this theme Daniel said that humans should afford other species the opportunity to evolve, so other species keep surviving. On page 109 of Ishmael book Quinn wrote a quote: “Intification of productionto feed an increase population leads to a still greater increase in population”, this quote refers that species may expands as same as food supply does. In other words Human Supremacy talked about species evolution and how they continue

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