Blog 5: Discuss Ishmael

Abby Summerlin, Scott Thomas Stanley, I'Yari Ah'Shanyk Wade, Meseker Worku Kebede

10/17/2022

1:30 - 2:00

In our discussion of Ishmael, I personally stuck to my groups response when asked about the narrator told Ishmael he wished he meet him when he was 17. Since everyone in our group was close to the age of 17, we talked about how we felt about how learning how to think at that age is so important for the rest of our lives. While I don't think younger people are better to save the world, I think learning this information at such a young age gives you the time to use it and also allows you to fully comprehend how to do so. 

We also spoke about how interesting we found Ishmael view on Giver and Takers. Many of the members of my group thought that Ishmael had the right to view Giver and Takers the way he did but we also mentioned that there wasn't any middle ground with Ishmael. You were either a "nature lover" or trying to ruin the world and many of my group members believed that there was a gray area between the two and it wasn't fair to not acknowledge it.