moby dick

A detailed Summary of moby dick

Moby Dick is an extremely long novel

written by Herman Melville. This book is an epic tale of a

crazed sea captain hunting the whale that bit off his leg told

through the eyes of a school teacher. As the story begins

Ishmael is at the local boating dock looking for work.

Ishmael being a school teacher has allot of time off as of the

moment because the school is at recess, for what reason i

don't know. He is in a tavern talking amongst the whalers.

He asks if they know of any ships on witch he could board

as a hand for the captain. One of the stories he receives is of

a man named Ahab. He is offering good pay and good work

for any man who wants to join him on his ship. the only

problem is that people say that he is a rather evil man.

whale who took his leg. Because Ahab comes off as such an

whale is spotted. It isn't just any whale though, it is Moby

describes in very good detail what happens on their whaling

pure hatred of witch Ishmael speaks of Moby Dick, the

because i don't do much whaling myself. Ishmael describes

he begins his chase. He shouts at his men, and screams at

in great detail all actions taking place on the ship that he

boats. With all the boats smashed all the men died except

of him. He develops a slight dislikement of him and begins to

be stopped and every man is to concentrate on killing the

thrashed about and broke up the boats with the men in them

Approximate Word count = 505
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: Miscellaneous

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