Enacting being Forced

The so called “Takers Story”, presumably sums up the focus of Daniel Quinn’s novel “Ishmael”, which defines a certain way that humans act, and in which derives the question, “how did things come to be this way”. As it defines a story that our society lives in a world of superiority and inferiority, it lays down the fact of us being in a prison. That prison is keeping people captive. That prison is you, me and them, within the takers story. The prison is symbolically the story in which humans are forced to enact, the “takers story”, where the “takers” themselves live a patriarchal life of domination and oppress those who are lesser than them.

The assumption that there are people lesser than us, therefore subordinate to us, is seen in a lot of different ways other than just within the human race. Just the way some people feel more than others, the same is felt with non-human living things on this planet. Animals are the main focus of possession. They most times not count when it comes to suffering. There is a very important assumption at the beginning of the novel that contributes completely to the meaning of this novel as a whole. It is an assumption that catches people biased thoughts. It shows exactly what the book focuses on. People have very strong reactions to certain things out of the ordinary. For most people, there was a huge discomfort and confusion with a gorilla enacting the role of a teacher at the beginning. The gorilla was to teach according to the book. He was about to be the smart one of the novel. He was in other words like a wise man with wisdom. There was an assumption of misunderstanding the text because there is no way on earth that a gorilla, some kind of animal, could be teaching us and...

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...at a man is the one capable of doing the job because women are not smart enough. The other important reason behind it is that all of those occupations have some sort of power and the mindset is that men have the power. In a patriarchal society, the men control women, and in the past it was extreme abuse. This kind of oppression is the kind of inequality that has always been faced. It happens with everybody, with African Americans, Latinos, Asians, Women and even Men. The fact that people think they have power over other and that they are 100 times better is what destroys our community on earth. The thing is that out of there being dominant groups and subordinate groups, doesn’t there have to be on that is at the very top? Isn’t there that one group that has to be the most powerful? Indeed there has to be because then who came up with those ideas in the first place?