Chapter Ten Ishmael.

The uncles arrival was the begining of an unfortunate series of events. When his uncle was supposed to be there for one day he stayed for two and a half. Then he begins to have a tooth ache which made him miss two other days of learning. The narrator begins to feel very nervous because he feels that not going to Ishmael for a long time will end up in a bad thing. The day he finally decided to go he wasn´t surprised to see that Ishmael was no longer there. "The gambler who puts his last hundred on odd and watches the ball hop decisively on 18 will tell you he knew it was a loosing bet the instant it left its hands. He knew, felt it."(pg 189) This reflects how certain the pupil was that Ishmael was no longer there. His search for him would then begin.
As intensely as he looked he seemed to find people he wasn´t looking for. His search seemed to be endless, he even put a newspaper ad giving a message to Ishmael's last pupils.Until he decided to search in a carnival, were he finally found Ishmael, better known there as Gargantua. As any other being he, Ishmael, began to feel that his pupil was no longer interested in learning so he began to act as if he was of no use anymore. "I didn´t invite you to make yourself my patron, so kindly refrain from patronizing me."(pg 195)Ishmael tells this to the narrator traing to make him come to sense, he is his pupil , not his patron as said over there. After some dialogue the narrator convinces Ishmael to continue his classes with a very impacting sentence. "So what are you going to do? Do I just become failure number five or what?"(pg 195) This makes Ishmael come into reason and continue the class. Though both of them are all mind into the teachings, a family starts to see the pupil talking to the gorilla. Ishmael tries to stop him from talking but he can´t. He then makes the pupil go.
The next day both of them kept going with their teachings. Culture was again brought into the discussion with Ishmael giving the narrator an other definition of it. "It´s the sum total of what has passed along, of course, not just information and techniques. It´s beliefs, assumptions, theories, customs, legends, songs, stories, dances, jokes, superstitions, prejudices, tastes, attitudes. Everything." (pg 199) The leavers seem to recognize their past and accept it letting it become part of their culture. Instead the takers mother culture say that everything of the past should be discarded. They believe this because mother culture convinces them from thinking that hunters lived in misery and that those past peoples are not worth. so takers believe that they need laws to live because they only want one right way to live and that's what laws give them. That's why the prophets are so important to them, because they give them laws to teach them the way to live. "The takers accumulate knowledge about what works well for things. The leavers accumulate knowledge of what works for people."(pg 206)That was concluded after a long discussion between Ishmael and his pupil.