Ignorance is seen every day of our lives. Even people in the 1850's
             were aware of ignorance. Ignorance is defined as being uneducated or
             resulting from or showing lack of knowledge. Ignorance can be taken to
             extremes though. There is complete ignorance where the person thinks that
             even though they do not understand it all they still know everything. Then
             others of us say that even though I am not sure about it I am knowledgeable
             to my ignorance. In Moby Dick, Ishmael's ignorance can be related to my
             "The more I pondered over this harpooner, the more I abominated the
             thought of sleeping with him. It was fair to presume that being a harpooner,
             his linen or woolen, as the case might be, would not be of the tidiest,
             certainly not the finest. I began to twitch all over." In this passage we can
             see the ignorance that is present in Ishmael's character. Though he knows
             nothing of this harpooner, by the name of Queequeg, he fears him. In an
             ideal scene this wouldn't happen. Judgement of Queequeg happens before he
             even enters the book at a leading character and without Ishmael's real
             knowledge. Ishmael states that his body begins to twitch, because he is so
             nervous and so afraid of the untidiness or barbaric qualities that this
             Unfortunately enough people actually think like that, even now over
             100 years later. It's amazing that we haven't picked up on this and tried to
             change. In my own life I know I am ignorant, but I try to be knowledgeable
             instead. However cases like this are much too common. When meeting
             someone for the first time I often characterize how I think they are going to
             be by just things I have heard prior to the meeting, how other's like this
             would act, or even a little assumption on what the name might bring in means
             of connotations. It's sad, but unfortunately I
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