because it taught him not to judge on outward appearances.
E2. Another relationship that was very short was the .
relationship between Ishmael and Captain Ahab. For the first .
few days aboard the Pequod Ishmael always saw Ahab in the .
shadows. When Ishmael finally saw Ahab he had shivers run .
through his body. Ishmael felt Ahab's attitude of .
determination, dedication and hatred towards "Moby Dick" in .
Ahab's appearance. This relationship was a negative .
relationship because Ishmael now feared Ahab and did not .
want to become friends with such an evil person.
F. The conflict that Ishmael experienced was that he saw how .
Ahab was such an evil man and that .
Ishmael was a good natured man and did not want to be .
corrupted by Ahab. To resolve this conflict .
Ishmael stayed away from Ahab.
.
Representative Passage on Imagery and Figurative Language.
"Yonder, by the ever-brimming goblet's rim, .
the warm waves blush like wine. The gold brow plumbs the .
blue. The diver sun-long dived from noon,-goes down; my soul .
mounts up! she wearies with her endless hill. Is, then, the .
crown too heavy that I wear? this Iron Crown of Lombardy. .
Yet is it bright with many a gem; I, the wearer, see not its .
far flashings; but darkly fell that I wear that, that .
dazzlingly confounds. 'Tis iron-that I know-not gold. 'Tis .
split, too-that I feel; the jagged edge galls me so, my .
brain seems to beat against the solid metal." Chapter LV.
A. The details being used to make us feel like we are .
watching a sunset is that it says "the warm waves .
blush like wine. The gold brow plumbs the blue. The diver .
sun-long dived from noon,-goes down; my .
soul mounts up!".
.
B. The similes the author uses are the comparison of the .
colored waves of the sunset to wine. I believe .
that when the author is talking about the "Iron Crown of .
Lombardy" he is talking about the sun. When it .
says "Is, then, the crown too heavy that I wear?" he is .
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