Moby Dick Research Paper

One of the first actual novels that I ever read was Moby Dick by Herman Melville. I received it for my 6th birthday and after opening to the first page I soon commenced on a mystical adventure. I began my endeavor with Ishmael and meeting Queequeg at the Whaler’s Inn. Then eventually meeting Ahab aboard the Pequod, which was a whaling ship led by Captain Ahab. From Ahab’s fervent desire to avenge his lost leg from a previous encounter with the infamous Moby Dick to the untimely death of all of the crew members, besides Ishmael, it was action packed from beginning to end . So when I stumbled over “The Maldive Shark” by Melville on Poetry Out Loud’s website, I knew that it would be another great piece of literature.

Herman Melville was a very famous and

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