Final Chapter, final lesson

Ishmael dies. It is not such a big deal for anyone except the speaker. "Oh. Called the county, I guess. Took him off to where they cremate the roadkill. You know." pg, 261. This is the way it is for most of the people who die, the ones who knew their value do know what they are loosing. It it kind of the same thing refering to earth. We waste water like crazy unbeknowed of its real value, we actually do know it but are not concious of it, which is a totally different thing. If we were all concious of the value of our planet we would probably not be in the situation we are right now.

Death is enevitable, what point would life had if it would? This is the excitement of life, the push to make of everyday a life experience. Ishmael's death is a lesson, the final lesson for the pupil. To take advantage of life and not take it for granted like 99% of the people do. Don't take life for granted. So obvious, but most do, until they crash and realize that that's what they have been doing all the time, taking life for granted. The pupil's task is to pass the knowledge he has gained until he takes he last breath. Ishmeal was not exception to death, that is the only law that is NEVER broken. That is the real law, death, everybody follows it. We are destined to die the moment we are born, in other words we are destined to make a change in order to die. What a shame to die knowing tthat your life made no change at all, that is my worst fear; die, knowing that i didn't touch anybody's life, that I didn'd leave a mark in this funcking screwed world. Ishmael did, and it is up to the pupil on how long this mark will stay.

Ishmael, the novel, touches too many subjects to be able to organize them and draw a conclution. I don't agree with all of them, in fact I was quite confused and made me angry at some subjects that Quinn talks about. I don't think humans should be underjugded, we keep on criticizing ourselves and why don't we just try each of us in our own way to do the best we can? Isn't the goal of life to be happy? The only thing that drives me to become a better person everyday is if it makes me happier.