I think that
my opinion about Ishmael has been
communicated in my other blog posts, however, for the sake of completing the
blog assignment, here are my thoughts about the book as a whole. For one, I
thought that many of Quinn’s ideas were sound, particularly those dealing with
resource depletion and animal ethics. However, the solutions presented were
very farfetched and idealistic. Furthermore, the book was not nearly as challenging
as it should have been for an AP English project.
Like Quinn,
I believe that there are problems which need to be addressed in the future.
Without fixing these problems there will inevitably be a shortage of natural
resources. However, I tend to be an optimist in that I believe humanity will be
able to deal with these problems simply because we must. I think that the
intent in writing Ishmael was to
catalyze some sort of change in the behavior of the younger generation. However,
it felt like propaganda because it provided its arguments without offering
facts as support. The entire book I was unable to trust that darn gorilla
because he so rarely gave supporting evidence. I sincerely wish I had not
chosen to read this book especially because I have to write five blog posts
which are really just me complaining.
Quinn’s
ideas about animal sentience and the value of life may be ahead of his time and
I commend him for that. I also agree with his views about human-centrism and its
potential to distort truth. I guess my main issue with Quinn right now is that
I didn’t like his writing style. I really don’t have much more to say about
this book.
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