Ishmael Summary David Quinn’s book Ishmael is a fiction book with sobering relevance to the world we live in today and the direction it is going. The main characters in the book are a young man and a telepathic gorilla, Ishmael. The book opens with the young man looking at the newspaper where he sees a classified advertisement by a teacher looking for a pupil with an earnest desire to save the world. The …showed first 75 words of 699 total…

…showed last 75 words of 699 total…that govern life and make it continue. He says that we have ignored those laws that are observed by every member of Leaver society. He says that we are like an early flight inventor who is flapping the wings of his flying machine but still falling. Our culture is mistaking falling for flying, and eventually we are going to hit the ground and possibly die. To save Gorilla, Ishmael knows he must first save man.