Ishmael: the learning of the key to survive

Ishmael was a book that can perturbate you, can make you think a lot and can really teach you how to live a life where the human race stops destroying earth and at the same time save themselves. For me personally experienced all these three sensations as I read the book and when i most thought about the book was when I finished it.In the begging you can think that the main character and the most important person is Ishmael the teacher but as you read along and find out that the gorilla is really a superior being that is the only one that can change the life of this human. The gorilla could be a symbol of knowledge. "The world was made for man and man was made to conquer and rule it."pg. 74 This quote really means that without man in the world it would be a total anarchy and the world would be a chaos. Since there would not be a definite ruler all would be fighting for it. When I read this I thought more deeply into it. We would tend to think of this anarchy but for example if you go to the rain forest you won't find all a chaos and fighting you would instead find everything working perfectly, a flea bites you, then a toad eats the flea, then a small mammal eats the toad, then a bigger one eats, and the whole cycle starts a gain so it is not a chaos it is a balanced lifestyle.In this book you also find parts when the book shows you that humans are wrong and that was when I got perturbated because it is true is like if all your life you had thought something was right and kept doing it until one moment when someone tells you it is wrong and they are right. A quote I found that really went along with this part was: "Trail and error is not a bad way to learn how to build an aircraft, but it can be a disastrous way to learn how to build a civilization."pg. 110Ishmael for me was not the teacher of only the main character personally for me that gorilla that at the beginning was a usual gorilla became like a sage who teaches all his pupils (including the ones that read the book) the way how to live. The main quote of this book for me the one that had me more time thinking is the one that the book ends with. "With gorilla gone will there be hope for man,"pg. 263 you would normally think that it is the other way because if humans go away gorillas will be more free and they would not be hunted so much so they will. In this quote I though of it in 3 ways. The first way is that nothing will happen because man doesn't depend on the gorilla. The other way is with the story: with Ishmael gone will the main character survive. And the one that gave me most thought was the third one that is without a teacher will the pupil survive? If you had a teacher that teaches you how to really live and he is more like a mentor, when he is gone will the one that depends so much on him survive.