Ch 13: Ishmael dead, hope for character?

When the main character had devised a plan to buy Ishmael and take him to his house, he found out while looking for a place to eat breakfast that a sign in his car panel read “too hot.” He had to go to the nearest place where there was a mechanic on duty. The mechanic said that the radiator was not working and that he needed to get a new fan. The character was able to get back to his house and leave the car at a dealer garage to be fixed. “Handle a problem until you actually have it” pg 259 He there admits that he doesn’t really think things too much, he is more like an improviser. Sometimes it works to be improviser because you don’t need too much time to think about important events or decisions. But it sometimes (most of the times) it comes in handy to be prepared. He finds out that the car repairs are going to cost too much and they will take some time so he decided to rent a van and go to visit Ishmael. When he got there he found out that the carnival had moved on but went to where Ishmael had been by figuring out where it was located by memory. When he got there he found an old guy who told him: “It was the Pneumonia that got him-your friend the ape.” pg 260. I think that at this moment the world of the character totally collapsed. He had been the best pupil Ishmael had had (according to how far they got) and Ishmael had been the mentor that had taught him how to live. Then he calls to Mr. Partridge, the butler of Mr. Sokolow, and told him that they could have saved him. Mr. Partridge asked him if he really thought that he would have let them save him.
When he got home he went to frame the poster of Ishmael and discovered another Question. “With gorilla gone, will there be hope for man?” pg 263 for me this quotation is the most important from the book because it really gives like a foreshadow of the characters future because Ishmael who was a gorilla was his mentor and with the mentor gone will there be hope for student?