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I think Melville is really brilliant in the way he wrote his book because he made it boring adn long in the beginning and the last 10 chapters really suspenseful. One quote I noticed that has some sifnificance is, ” When Ahab, coming from his cabin, cast his eyes a loft, the viligant Helmsman would [...]

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A lot of important event happen in these chapters as the book is soon coming to its closing. My favorite quote from the chapter came when Ahab was baptizing the pagans, ” Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli.” This quote said by Ahab was written in Latin which makes it [...]

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Chapter 110 was probably the most interesting and exiting chapter so far through the book. But before I talk about that, the sub-title for chapter 108 : The Deck-First Night Watch,  made the chapter sound a lot more interesting than it actually was. All that happens in the chapter was the carptenter makes Ahab an [...]

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I thought that the first chapter was quite interesting, I learned a few things about whales that I never knew. For one, I didn’t know that whales traveled in schools by sex, like all the females travel together and all the males travel together. One fascinating fact I learned was that female whales are one [...]

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I think that it was typical Melville to say, ” And now, as we eighteen men with our thirty-six arms, and one hundred and eighty thumbs and fingers,” because he always has to be very descriptive in everything he says. This chapter kind of reminds me of the movie Jaws, I thought of this because [...]

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