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In the novel Moby Dick, by Herman Melville, the Pequod, a great whaling ship, pursues a giant Sperm whale in a journey around the world. In the exposition, Ishmael, the narrator of the story, rests in the port of New Bedford, where. he stays at the Spouter Inn. Here, Ishmael meets Queequeg, a harpooned who is from New Zeland. At first, Ishmael is frightened by Queequeg because he is tattooed, has a tomohawk, and sells shrunken heads, but Queequeg Ishmael soon become friends.

In the rising action, Ishmael attends a church service at the Whaleman’s Chapel where Father Mapple, a preacher, gives a sermon about Jonah and the whale. The next day, Queequeg and Ishmael set out for Nantucket where they sign on a whaler. On the ferry ride to the island,
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