Ishmael: Chapter 10

For first time in the book, the author changes the setting and the way the novel is going. Until now we have been in the same room, the same 2 characters and the same argument, Ishmael teaches all of his meaningful thoughts to the man. The chapter starts off by telling you that a relative of the man arrived at town. This of course keeps the man from visiting Ishmael for a couple of days. After this, the man finds himself having to do some work and is kept away from Ishmael for another 2 days. After all of this, when the man finally gets back to Ishmael he is no longer there. The man dedicates himself to look for Ishmael. After looking very hard for him, he finally found him on the Darryl Hicks Carnival. "Ishmael was in a dim corner as far from the entrance as it was possible to be". Pg 195. After some time they decide to continue their lessons from there. "There is no need for you to become failure number five. We can go on as before." Pg 195.

After all of Ishmael's valuabe lessons, the man starts to really think about things differently. He starts to feel the need of continuing the lessons. In some way he gets to a point where he looks for Ishmael so hard he seems desperate to finish the lessons. After Ishmael continues to teach, he tells the man something that really got me thinking. "Yes. And what we teach our children is how to make things. How to make more things and better things." "Why dont we teach them what works well for people?" "I'd say it's because we don't know what works well for people." Pg 203. This is something I agreed with on the moment I read it, even though I would have never thought about it. Ishmael has really taught me some very valuable things throughout the book.