Chapter 13: Ishmael's Goodbye

Ishmael had to die his work was done; his student new what he was suppose to do to save human kind and the ones who are suppose to come after us. What most impacted me was Ishmaels poster, “It wasn’t till I got Ishmael’s poster to the framing shop that I discovered there were messages on both sides. I had it framed so that both can be seen. The message on one side is the one Ishmael displayed on the wall of his den: WITH MAN GONE, WILL THERE BE HOPE FOR ORILLA? The message on the other side reads: WITH GORILLA GONE, WILL THERE BE HOPE FOR MAN?” Pg 262 when we first saw this it made sense Ishmael was behind the window and it seem as if someone was taking care of him, but as the book develops we see how Ishmael student needs him. Now that Ishmael is no longer here we see the dependency of his student towards him. And this why Ishmael had that poster; he new that when he was gone his student and all of us would have to ask that question to ourselves.