Ishmael. Chapter 3 Jamie Favaloro, Brandon McElrath

1. Ishmael has the narrator use a tape recorder with the purpose of "recording for posterity the curious folktales of a doomed culture..." Using this tactic, the pupil is able to return to his own words and hear his own logical fallacies based on cultural lies.

2. When asked for the story of creation, the narrator gives Ishmael a retelling of the big bang, the formation of the universe and the planet, the start of life and FINALLY the rise of man. Ishmael shows him the self centered and illogical nature of this myth by saying "but finally, the jellyfish appeared".

3. "When man finally appeared, creation came to an end." Ishmael further dismisses this arguments with the facts that the universe did not stop expanding 5 billion years ago with the birth of our solar system, and that speciation did not come to a halt with the birth of man. "Man's arrival caused no more of a stir than that of the jellyfish."

4.With this the narrator realizes the fault of his thoughts. "It's a myth. Incredibly enough, its a myth." Takers believe that the world was made for man, whereas the leavers story has an entirely different premise, but at this point it would be impossible for the narrator to understand.