Leavers Ideas Possible?

As the narrator try´s unsuccessfully to buy Ishmael, a very interesting chapter starts. Why? He begins to tell his pupil about the leavers story. His first lesson of the day begins by asking a previous question "How did man become man?"(pg 236) After some time of discussion, the pupil found an answer."Man became man by living in the hands of the gods."(pg 237) This reminded me of many things in that appeared before in the book, such as the discussion of why Adan took the fruit which belonged to the gods. This time the class would continue and came to a point which was very interesting, the premises for each culture. "The premise for the Takers is the world belongs to man. The premise for the Leavers is the man belongs to the world."(pg 239) These facts would make me think: If the man belongs to the world all his creations belong to the world as well. Also this made me think that the leavers story was that one, to live as though they belonged to the world. The pupil would the deduct that if we followed the leavers way of life we would continue evolving. As Ishmael continued they would come to more important information. "The world doesn´t need to belong to man, but it does need man to belong to it."(pg 243) This seemed to conclude the class, all Ishmael had taught his pupil was to come to this point of the learning.

After long hard work the narrator would be interested in saving the world, and asked Ishmael from were to start. He would answer in a predictable manner but then give him a clue. "You can´t change these things with laws. You must change peoples minds."(pg 249) This sentence would really impact me. I know understand why some people break laws. They break them because in their minds they believe differently as the laws tell them. Getting to the Takers minds will be better than giving them a law of what to do. Ultimately Ishmael told his pupil that the Leavers way of life would let them be free. "There is no significant difference between the inmates of your criminal prison and the inmates of your cultural prison."(pg 252) This shows me that Ishmael believes that we are being trapped in our own prison created by the Takers. After weeks of class, Ishmael would tell his pupil that his teachings were done. Th narrator in disbelief tells him he will be back tomorrow.