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The Whale Of Moby Dick By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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This book is about a sailor and his new job. He decided to change his life and his job in New York to be a whaler seaman. His name was Ishmael. When he arrived at the port to pick up his new job, he did not know where he would spend the night, so he set out to find a comfortable and not very expensive place, passing in front of different taverns. Since the inn is full, Ishmael Entirely he will have to share his room with a dark harpoon called Queequeg. At dawn they went to sign the admission papers. Long after they had sailed, Captain Ahab went on deck and everyone could see that he did not have a leg but that he had a bone in his place. Ahab had an obsession: to hunt down Moby Dick, but also to hunt down whales, he thought he would be closer …show more content…

Some boats had tried to hunt her, but they had not been able to. Moby Dick was an evil and murderous whale. It was according to the book an old sperm whale, of prodigious size and strength. Many times when they were whale hunting, Moby Dick would appear, but the whalers had no luck with her. One day, they were alerted that someone saw something like a white whale, but it really was a giant octopus. Whalers preferred to face whales than a giant octopus. Ahab was disillusioned, because it was not what he was looking for. For Starbuck the appearance of the octopus was a bad omen, for Queequeg was something very different, because he said they would soon see sperm whales. The whalers were resting when suddenly they saw some whales. They threw themselves at the boats and hunted a whale, this one was dismembered and taken to the boat in pieces. What was left at night was eaten by the sharks. In one more day of adventure the crew found a ship: "The Rachel". Ahab asked if they had seen Moby Dick. They said yes. Ahab was thrilled and went in search of the whale. The captain of "El Rachel" asked for help to find his lost crew but Ahab was carried away by his desire for revenge and did not want to

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