moby dick
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 beginsIshmael is at the local boating dock looking for work.Ishmael being a school teacher has allot of time off as of themoment because the school is at recess, for what reason idon't 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.
one of the ships hands and boards for a tripwitch he will never forget. One day as this ship is sailing along awhale is spotted. I don't know if this is a normal whaling trip or notbecause i don't do much whaling myself. He is so enraged with the whale that he orders everything tobe stopped and every man is to concentrate on killing thewhale. Now that the shipwas gone the whale turned its self on the whalers. He shouts at his men, and screams atthe whale. He has every man loaded in to the whaling boats andhe begins his chase. Captain Ahabchased the whale for three days. With all the boats smashed all the men died exceptone. The man is a very evil looking person. he tried to harpoon thewhale several times but missed with each. He curses it as if it were from hell. As the story goes on itdescribes in very good detail what happens on their whalingtrip. Ishmael can see the fire in his eyes. The whalethrashed about and broke up the boats with the men in themdrowning them.
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