Moby Dick Ap Language

Moby-Dick, one of the few novels in American Literature that has left a lasting impression on society for almost two centuries now. The time around where the novel was first published Moby-Dick has received negative attention from many people with it being known as one of Melville's worst pieces of writing . In the modern era, however, Moby-Dick receives negative attention from people due to the use of language in the text. The use of language in Moby-Dick is unreadable to most 21st century readers because of the novel's use of words and phrases from the 19th century that are now obsolete. This causes modern day readers to feel illiterate in terms of the 19th-century language used in the novel. At the same time, however, a lot the language

Moby-Dick is hardly ever integrated into a school's core curriculum. From the 497 undergraduates Lamb has taught the book to, only 19 of those students had previously read the book. The reason for such a few high school students reading the novel is that Moby-Dick is a canonical book written by a “dead,white man” have little relevance, and is pernicious. Another reason is that high school teachers find Moby-Dick to be too challenging to teach to students. It’s difficult to teach high school students using Moby-Dick because of their short attention span which is determined by video games, music videos, and shopping mall culture. In Lambs experience of teaching undergraduate college students he has noticed the percentage of students who read Moby-Dick or any novel by Melville decreases every year. Even the few amount of students who have read Moby-Dick while in high school has encountered problems that has ruined the experience of reading the novel. Many high school teachers have the presumption that their students are an unappreciative audience, this is called the Dead Poets Society attitude (Lamb, Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish: Teaching Melville's Moby-Dick in the College