ded.(pg 117, Melville)?
             One thing that kept Ahab from achieving his goal was the whale, Moby Dick, himself. Ahab had three chances to catch Moby Dick and each time the whale prevailed. The first time the whale dove into the sea and then came up straight at Ahab's boat and broke the boat. So Ahab and his crew had to be picked up by the Peqoud. In the next encounter the same thing happened except the whalers had pierced the whale with a couple of harpoons. In this encounter Feddalah, a whaler, lost his life. The third and final encounter proved to be fatal. This time Ahab landed another harpoon in Moby Dick, but once again the whales strengthen proved to be too much for the whalers. Moby Dick tore apart Ahab's boat and also sunk the Peqoud. Everyone drowned in this incident except for Ishmael, the narrator of Moby Dick. Ahab never did achieve his goal. In The Odyssey Odysseus faced a similar problems, but was eventually able to overcome them and achieve his goal. Odysseus was trying to get home to his wife Penelo
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