Ishmael by: Daniel Quinn

I found this book to be very interesting yet a bit strange.  I have never read a book quite like this one.  Towards the beginning of the book, the narrator comes across an ad that that said: “TEACHER seeks pupil.  Must have an earnest desire to save the world.  Apply in person”(pg 4).  The narrator then meets a educated gorilla named Ishmael who is telepathic.  Majority of the book is a back and forth dialogue between the narrator and the gorilla, where the gorilla helps the narrator to understand the history and the future of humankind and how if we don’t do something, then we are essentially destroying the world.  Through the book, it talks about the Nazis and Mother Culture.  One quote that scared me was the one that was one that was in the front and in the back of the book “With man gone, will there be hope for gorilla” and the other quote that was in the back of the book was “with gorilla gone will there be hope for man.”  This scares me a bit because we are all one, we are all a part of something thing and if one goes will we/ they be able to survive without us/them.  I would like to read it again when I have more time because I kind of quickly read it and I feel like I may have missed a lot.