Ishmael's Chapter 11

The part that I most liked of this chapter was when they act as if the man was a Taker and Ishmael was a hunter- gatherer (leaver). I liked it because the man has to try to convince Ishmael (leaver) to stop living the life he has had up to now and start being a Taker. The man tries really hard to convince Ishmael to be a Taker, but Ishmael's comebacks to everything the man says are way more powerful and meaningful thagt the man says, so at the end, Ishmael starts dropping clues to tell the man what he had not understand in a long time. The leavers depend on their gods, their gods are the ones who give them food, drinks, and everything else. He is trying to explain something to the man but the man does no understand him. By the time the conversation is ending, the man tells Ishmael that the leavers should gather more than what they need so that when the gods say something like 'today you don't eat' or 'today there is a drought' then all the leavers can say "Not me, goddam it! I'm not going hungry and there's nothing you can do about it, because my life is in my hands now!" (pg. 227) I thpught that part was interesting because that is what the Takers culture is about: saving food so you don't need to gather every day, and if there is a natural disaster or just a low number of animals to hunt and plants to eat, the takers will always have something, because they were prepared, they saved food.