Ishmael is a deep book that shows us the problems of our civilization. It is similar to “Tuesdays with Morrie” because both express the problems of our society and how these make us feel trapped and forced to live unfulfilled lives. We can see a parallel between this book with Mitch. After being in class with Morrie he decided to follow what he learned but eventually the circumstances forced him to find a usual job and get back to his place in the story as Ishmael said.
Our narrator is very similar to Mitch. He started as a person who didn’t want to follow the rules that our culture wanted to impose in to him but eventually he turned out to be another regular person living an unhappy and caged life. Eventually both Mitch and our narrator find a teacher to take them back in the right path or at least attempt to do so.
Back on Ishmael he states that the world is made for man according to our culture. Although literally this shouldn’t be true and its more man was made for the world there is no prove to contradict our idea. We haven’t found other life forms similar to us in intelligence to tell us it’s not. Even more important although we can’t control some factors and these might get to kill some of us we will keep on existing and consuming the planet the way we are right now as if nothing had changed.
I believe that the reason why we have it in our culture to think that we own the world is that we control the environment we live in. We can have more or less light in a room and control the temperature in our house. To most of us our universe is very limited. (Our home, the school, the bus) As long as that small universe that we live in stays the same then we believe that nothing outside of it can affect us. Even though we might be changing the bigger picture something’s in the smallest scale remain the same, the reason why we choose not to change the way we behave is that losing control of those little things can make us afraid of change even if it’s for a good cause.
In conclusion, because we are trapped in our society (as said in Ishmael) we end up living unfulfilled and sad lives (as said in Tuesday’s with Morrie). This happens because of our selfish thought that the world is ours and we can do as we please with it. Eventually we destroy our world and killed ourselves in the way and none of this will be solved unless we decide to make a change in our lifestyle. Our culture has evolved with us and although we were shaped in an almost perfect way to fit our place I this planet does it mean our culture fits in it too?
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Our narrator is very similar to Mitch. He started as a person who didn’t want to follow the rules that our culture wanted to impose in to him but eventually he turned out to be another regular person living an unhappy and caged life. Eventually both Mitch and our narrator find a teacher to take them back in the right path or at least attempt to do so.
Back on Ishmael he states that the world is made for man according to our culture. Although literally this shouldn’t be true and its more man was made for the world there is no prove to contradict our idea. We haven’t found other life forms similar to us in intelligence to tell us it’s not. Even more important although we can’t control some factors and these might get to kill some of us we will keep on existing and consuming the planet the way we are right now as if nothing had changed.
I believe that the reason why we have it in our culture to think that we own the world is that we control the environment we live in. We can have more or less light in a room and control the temperature in our house. To most of us our universe is very limited. (Our home, the school, the bus) As long as that small universe that we live in stays the same then we believe that nothing outside of it can affect us. Even though we might be changing the bigger picture something’s in the smallest scale remain the same, the reason why we choose not to change the way we behave is that losing control of those little things can make us afraid of change even if it’s for a good cause.
In conclusion, because we are trapped in our society (as said in Ishmael) we end up living unfulfilled and sad lives (as said in Tuesday’s with Morrie). This happens because of our selfish thought that the world is ours and we can do as we please with it. Eventually we destroy our world and killed ourselves in the way and none of this will be solved unless we decide to make a change in our lifestyle. Our culture has evolved with us and although we were shaped in an almost perfect way to fit our place I this planet does it mean our culture fits in it too?
Pages read: 1-66
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