In the story of the whale, Herman Melville also presents the theme of civilized versus savage as well. However, in this book, the theme is more developed as was stated earlier on. In Moby Dick, the reader is also faced with the idea of cannibalism and how that directly correlates with going “savage”. In the early chapters we meet our main character Ishmael and being to get well acquainted with a whale man’s profession and what they endear. We also meet Ishmael’s dear friend Queequeg who is of a different decent and is covered in tattoos. At this time period minorities were categorized, as being “different” and those who were “different” were savage and uncivilized just because of their differences from the majority population. Queequeg also