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Moby Dick Book Summary

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Deep book review:Moby dick The major questions raised by the book and, for fiction, a description of its characters, setting and plot. The book starts with a man named Ishmael. Ishmael decides he wants to become a whaler. Before he starts looking for a whaling crew he goes to stay in an inn and meets a whaler named Queequeg, soon they become friends. The next day Ishmael and Queequeg go out looking for jobs as whalers. They both landed jobs on a ship named the Pequod. Soon after, the captain; Captain Ahab tells everyone that the mission of The Pequod is to find Moby Dick (the whale that took Ahab’s leg) and kill him. After a while the pequod comes upon this ship named the Rachel. Ahab starts talking to the captain of the Rachel, the captain …show more content…

They chase him for three day. On the third day Moby dick rams the ship and it starts to sink. But Ahab is not one to give up, so he grabs his harpoon and spears Moby dick. But Moby is a fighter that will not allow a raggedy old ship captain take him down. So Moby pulls Ahab to the bottom of the ocean, where he dies. Evenchaley the entire crew is dead, with the one exception of Ishmael. Who gets saved by the captain of the Rachel. How the book changed you in a major way, who you would recommend it to and why? I would say that the whole book is a analogy. Through the book Captain Ahab chooses not to accept what life gives him. He gets caught up in the fact that a whale took his leg, and isn’t letting it go. He has been chasing this whale for a long time, and his entire life has been consumed by getting revenge for something he has no control over. It is just one big analogy to show people how they can live their lives. They can either become obsessed with something they have no control over, or they can move on. You can choose to be the obsessive captain like Ahab, or be someone who just rolls with the punches like Ishmael A description of the history and impact of the book and its

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