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This is the Melville kids, Herman is the one in black

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Home City of Herman Melville in New York city ArrowHead

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Pierre- A very personal book that revealed the back ground of his life, it talked about poverty, his relationship with his parents, and the near breakdowns he have had in his past

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*Life http://mentalfloss.com/article/503064/10-fascinating-facts-about-herman-melville
*Characteristics of Writing
https://study.com/academy/lesson/authors-writing-style-in-moby-dick.html
*Famous Works
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Herman-Melville

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-Born in New York City
-He spent a month living with Polynesian islanders after he jumped ship with his friend Richard Greene due to the fact they didn't like their captain
-Moby Dick was a flop, he got some good reviews but many said there was no method to hi madness and his literary symbolism and complexity was obscure
- His last major work was discovered by accident, Melville granddaughter gave her professor permission to look at Herman's papers and he sifted through some and came across "Billy Budd"
- He died September 28, 1891

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'the creature's future wake through the darkness is almost as established to the sagacious mind of the hunter, as the pilot's coast is to him.'

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'And, in these cases, somewhat as a pilot, when about losing sight of a coast, whose general trending he well knows, and which he desires shortly to return to again, but at some further point; ' (the entire thing has punctuation so no need to high-light it)

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'Like most old fashioned pulpits, it was a very lofty one, and since a regular stairs to such a height would, by its long angle with the floor, seriously contract the already small area of the chapel, the architect, it seemed, had acted upon the hint of Father Mapple, and finished the pulpit without a stairs, substituting a perpendicular side ladder, like those used in mounting a ship from a boat at sea.'

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1. He used multiple points and complex structures to portray his views
2. He uses a lot of punctuation
3. He uses personification to add more emotion to his sentences providing the reader with empathy towards his characters and himself

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1. Moby Dick (1850)
2. Mardi (1849)
3. White Jacket (1850)
4. Pierre (1852)