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Herman Melville

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The book takes place in about the 1850's. Majority of the book takes place at sea on a whaling ship. The whaling ship did leave from Nantucket, Massachusetts.

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Moby Dick starts out as a book of a man who was a merchant sailor named Ishmael who wants to sail the seas and go whale hunting. As he is walking around a cold city on a winter night looking for a place to stay he found a hotel called the Spouter Inn, which seemed fitting. They didn't have a room but offered him to share the Harpooners blanket, which is how he met Queequeg. At first Queequeg wasn't very pleasant until the next morning. Ishmael found out Queequeg wants to go on a ship to whale hunt, so they became partners. They then went to Nantucket to find a ship to sail on. They then found the Pequod and climbed aboard. The captain, who is Captain Ahab, was nowhere to be found until the day after they left shore. Captain Ahab appeared in front of all shipmates, and from that point on he was only focused on killing the white headed whale, the whale that took his leg off, Moby Dick. All eyes are peeled for any whale, and they ended up spotting one but it wasn't Moby Dick, just a normal whale. As they kept sailing, Queequeg who was one of the best harpooners got sick. Queequeg then thought he was about to die and was telling about how he would like to be buried. As the voyage went on, Queequeg got well again. Many gams or talking to other ships passing by. Nobody has seen Moby Dick and most don't even believe he is real. Ahab was getting angry, frustrated, couldn't take it anymore, and Starbuck almost convinced him to go home, to see their families, but then, the big white headed monster came around, and what happens after that cannot be told.

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Captain Ahab
Queequeg
Ishmael
Starbuck

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Ahab is a very uptight and demanding captain. He is bound and determined to kill Moby Dick and will do anything he possibly can to kill him, even sacrifice his crew members.

"Look here! One ounce of Spanish gold. Do you see, men?" (Melville 38)
"Whosoever of you raises me a white-headed whale..." (Melville 39)
The first quote is just a lead quote to show that Ahab is willing to give gold for whoever kills Moby Dick for him. This is also when Moby Dick is being introduced to the story. The second quote was what you had to do to receive the Spanish gold.

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Queequeg is an interesting character. When he was introduced to the story it was said that he was out selling head, human heads. But as the story progressed he became a more and more important character, as he was a great harpooner, and also a very selfless and fearless man. He seems very knowledgeable about what he does.

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Ishmael is the reason that him and Queequeg are on this voyage. He had a very big need to learn how to go whaling. He was pretty much clueless as to what he was doing. Queegueg was pretty much his role model and taught him many things. Ishmael is also the narrator of the story.
On the left in this picture is Ishmael and on the right we have Queequeg.

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Starbuck was one of the lead shipmates. Very few times did Starbuck and Captain Ahab see eye to eye. Ahab also treated Starbuck very poorly and would never listen to Starbucks bright ideas and it ended up getting everyone but Ishmael killed.

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The characters I thought stayed the same throughout the story, as their personalities were key to making the story. Captain Ahab was a mean, stubborn old man who had eyes on Moby Dick since he set foot on the Pequod, he did become more and more mean and demanding throughout the story. Starbuck also stays pretty consistent as he tends to Ahab's needs, and whenever he suggests anything Ahab almost always shoots him down, but he stayed very persistent through the story. Next, Ishmael was pretty much just the narrator throughout the story. He didn't do much other then get him and Queequeg on the on the boat and observe everything that happened. Queequeg was the only person that maybe changed a little bit. In the beginning of their voyage he showed his courage by jumping off the boat and saving someone, but then as their main voyage went on, through the cold air, he got very sick and thought he was going to die. That is when he lost his courage, but then he pulled through and made it. After he got better he regained his courage and skills. This canoe represents what Queequeg wanted to be buried in if he did. He didn't want to just be wrapped up in a sheet and thrown into the drink. He didn't want to be forgotten about.

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"Let the owners stand on Nantucket beach and outyell the typhoons. I don't care!"  (Melville 53)
proving he doesn't care about what other people say and he is going to run everything.

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Supporting Quote for Ahab being a bad guy

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Supporting Quote for Ahab being a bad guy

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As another ship approaches the Pequod in a gam, they ask for help to find a lost ship, and Ahab refuses to help in the selfishness of finding Moby Dick. The beginning of this started as Gardiner saying: "I need your help. We are whaling with another vessel, but our boats got separated" "My boy is on that ship. For God's sake, I beg you, help me find him." (Melville 68) and even after this Gardiner offered to pay them to help but Ahab simply refused by saying "Captain Gardiner, I will not do it." "Even now I am losing time. Goodbye. God bless you and may I forgive myself, but I must go." (Melville 70) Gardiner was simply disappointed and responded with "You may forgive yourself, Ahab......." ".....but I will not! And god will not!" (Melville 70) And in my eyes, this meeting plays a role in the end of the story with gods will. Ahab's selfishness does not work out.

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"You have outraged, but not insulted me, sir. I ask you not to beware of Starbuck...........but let Ahab beware of Ahab. Beware of yourself, old man." (Melville 54)
Starbuck is clearly not happy about what Captain Ahab is doing and fears what Ahab will do and that it will put them in danger.
Picture shows Ahab yelling at Starbuck, as it happened throughout the story when these two didn't get along.

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"But why did i want to go on a whaling voyage, after having been a merchant sailor for years? Only fate can answer that and no one else." (Melville 5)
I think this quote kind of shows that he doesn't even know why he is going on the voyage but feels that it is something he needs to do.
"Queequeg, you know how to kill a whale. I don't. And I don't know what kind of ship to look for!" (Melville 18)
This is also showing he really has no idea what he is doing or what to even look for to get started so he has to have Queequeg help him.

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They have finally spotted the White-Headed monster, Moby Dick. It was all hands on deck to go and kill the nasty beast, to retrieve Ahab's vengeance on the beast. But do you remember when Captain Gardiner said that God would never forgive Ahab for leaving Gardiner behind and not helping? Maybe this was gods vengeance on him. Ahab threw the Harpoon and it struck Moby Dick. but...... "The harpoon was darted and teh whale flew forward. The line ran with such velocity. Ahab stooped to clear it..." "...and he did clear it. But the flying turn caught him around the neck and, voicelessly, he was dragged out of the boat." (Melville 83)
This picture shows Ahab being taken by Moby.

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I personally think the most important event in this story is when Captain Ahab was killed. The whole story was about vengeance but when Moby Dick won for the second time, the whole trip was worthless. And for Ahab, it wrecked his goal, his ship, killed his shipmates, and killed him.

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Considering this is one of the first books I have actually read and comprehended a book, I really enjoyed it. I would recommend it. The excitement starts a little slow but gradually picks up through the book. It really grabbed me and kept me reading.

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