As soon as I read this chapter, and about the way the Pequod was going to use Queequeg coffin as a life-buoy I knew this something bad was going to happen. And it somehow struck me as funny, because coffins are usually where dead people are put but here they are going to use it [...]
Entries from October 2008
Chapter 126
October 26th, 2008 · No Comments
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Chapter 112
October 21st, 2008 · No Comments
In this chapter we meet a new character and he is the ships carpenter and we learn that his name is Perth. And then we learn about the reason that he came on this whaling voyage. What I don’t understnad is what happened to his family did they die or did they leave him. Because [...]
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Chapters 88-99
October 14th, 2008 · No Comments
I feel that the most important and revealing part of these few chapters was the end of chapter 96, where Melville quotes Solomon about the man who wanders from understanding. And then he goes into how we should not give ourselves to fire. And then he writes a beautiful metaphor using the eagle. And I [...]
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