Moby Dick :: essays research papers

Moby Dick is an extremely long novelwritten by Herman Melville. This book is an epic tale of acrazed sea captain hunting the whale that bit off his leg toldthrough the eyes of a school teacher. As the story begins shipwreck survivor is at the local boating dock looking for work.pariah being a school teacher has in allot of time off as of the signification because the school is at recess, for what reason idont know. He is in a tavern talking amongst the whalers.He asks if they know of any ships on witch he could boardas a hand for the captain. One of the stories he receives is ofa man named Ahab. He is offering good pay and good workfor any man who wants to join him on his ship. the onlyproblem is that people say that he is a rather evil man.Ishmael shes one of the ships hands and boards for a tripwitch he will never forget. The ship sets sail and every thing discernms to be going smoothly. Everything except one tinydetail, Ishmael hasnt seen the captain Ahab. He knows hesthere bec ause he has heard men talking to him, but Ishmaelhas yet to see him. When Ishmael finally dose see captainAhab he is shocked. The man is a very evil looking person.Ishmael can see the fire in his eyes. He is shocked by thepure hatred of witch Ishmael speaks of Moby Dick, thewhale who took his leg. Because Ahab comes off as such anevil man Ishmael doesnt want to become any manner of a friendof him. He develops a slight dislikement of him and begins tocall him Stubb when he isnt around. As the story goes on itdescribes in very good detail what happens on their whalingtrip. I dont know if this is a normal whaling trip or notbecause i dont do much whaling myself. Ishmael describesin great detail all actions taking place on the ship that hesees. Until one day. One day as this ship is sailing along awhale is spotted. It isnt middling any whale though, it is MobyDick. Ahab becomes what seems to be almost possessed.He is so enraged with the whale that he orders everything tobe stopped and every man is to concentrate on killing thewhale. He has every man loaded in to the whaling boats andhe begins his chase. He shouts at his men, and screams atthe whale. He curses it as if it were from hell.