Captain Ahab Dialectical Journal

The sighted whale is a sperm whale, which “blows as a clock ticks, with the same undeviating and reliable uniformity.” It is suggested that the fate of the crew involves sighting and hunting whales, something anticipated and prepared for. Eventually, a whale will be found and hunted, and the uniformity with which the sperm whale blows water suggests a correlation with the predictability of fate. The reference to a ticking clock suggests the inevitability of fate, and as a result, the inevitability of the whale-hunt. Soon after the sighting, three boats “swung over the sea” are prepared to send off the crew to hunt the whales. These boats are representative of the free will of the crew, as it is through these boats that the whalers can hunt the sighted whale. The boats are used to reach the final fate of hunting the whales, deciding the path by which the hunt occurs. The crew is “eager”, having anticipated a whale hunt and enthusiastic to reach their fate. It is their free will to send out those three boats to hunt the whale. Chance, the third of the three forces, also manifests itself, in the form of Ahab’s personal crew. Before the official crew gets off the ship into the three boats, they see “five dusky phantoms” surrounding Ahab. For the official crew, Ahab’s personal whale-hunting team is the force of chance, as none of the sailors except Ahab knew about

The ship around which the story is set, "The Pequod", has perhaps some of the most fatalistic

1. I would put myself in the place of the man on the horse he looks like he could be the leader, so the leader.

This letter was inscripted on the back of one of the last postcards that McCandless ever sent. McCandless explains that he is now going to hike into the Alaskan wilderness, which means he won’t be able to contact anyone anymore. As the reader knows McCandless’s eventual fate, this letter seems ironic in the way that he writes. McCandless mentions that this will be the very last type of communication, insinuating that even when he were to finally hike out of the wilderness there would still be no communication. He even goes further to mention that it was great knowing them, which is usually said before a person is about to die. McCandless could not have been positive that he was going to die in Alaska because he didn’t necessarily plan anything,

What stood out to me in these chapters, when I read the first page which reads, “Abena, my mother was raped by…?” (Page 1). Her body was taken advantage of against her will and at the tender age of about 16. Even Abena’s friend Jennifer was taken advantage of as she was forced to marry a man that she didn’t want to. It seemed as though men were an evil that plagued the lives of women and young girls. Second example is, when talking to the spirits of Abena and Mama Yaya, they often said to her, “Why can’t women do without men?”(Page 15). Every time Tituba was with another man they slept with her. Even though it was voluntary and never against her will, it seemed like the respect level for women and their bodies was very low. The night that Tituba

Throughout his novel, Moby Dick, Herman Melville will often devote entire chapters to the thoughts and actions of specific characters. Two specific examples of this type of chapter are Chapter 36, The Quarter-Deck, and Chapter 42, The Whiteness of the Whale. The first of these chapters depicts Ahab addressing his crew for the first time in order to convince them to hunt down Moby Dick. The second offers insight to the fear that is brought upon by the mere mention of Moby Dick The significance and effectiveness of each of these chapters are enhanced by Melville’s use of rhetoric and style respectively.

If you read the diary of a high school girl, what could you learn about her? The name of her best friend, what kind of a person she is, and maybe even signs of troubles deeper than the bad grade she got on her last chemistry exam would pop out at you. She probably would not explicitly state these things, either—they would become apparent simply by looking at how often her best friend’s name appeared within the pages, how she interacted with the people around her, and how she described her thoughts and feelings. Seeing things directly from her perspective would give you a unique look at who she was as a person, what her relationships with other people were like, and what her take on events was, all without ever being told what they were like

It was a cold winter morning, two vessels at battle, bombs thrown, shots fired, but that wasn’t the only thing that happened on December 22 of 1773, that morning the first mate was calling for the captain to prepare for battle, but the captain did not respond, the first mate checked everywhere, the captain’s bedroom, the cook’s quarters, he was nowhere to be found, but there was one place where he hadn’t checked, the bulkhead, he opened it, it was a very gruesome scene, he was covered in his own blood with a sword in his chest.

In this quote, the reader is shown to what extent Jack has been affected by living on the island. He’s been affected to the point that he is now described in words that would normally describe an animal. You would never think of a 12 year old boy having a “bloodthirsty snarl” as oppose to the innocent giggle or chuckle of a young child. He is literally becoming “one with his prey.” Along with some of the other boys, he has lost his morals, innocence, necessity for rules and order and turned into a bloodthirsty monster capable of killing, like he and the other boys killed Simon.

I've always love sci-fi, so when I started to watch a tv series called doctor who when I was 11, I was immediately enthralled. It's the story of a timelord called the Doctor who meets people on earth and then takes them traveling places they could never imagine. The idea of traveling through time and space with no limits was incredibly exciting, but more than anything I loved the inclusion and appreciation of so many types of people, the kinds of people I had never seen before. The character that has always stood out as an influence on the way I think now is Captain Jack Harkness. He was a man who was clearly pansexual and didn't care what people thought, he was something different from the way I'd seen anyone who wasn't heterosexual

“Aw, I don't understand this stuff, sis,” the boy exclaimed in a loud voice, breaking the silence, “Why do I need to learn about vectors for anyway? I'm gonna be a pilot, like Wyatt; I don't need to study all this useless junk. Jolker say's I'm a natural born pilot.”

It wasn’t unusual that some people didn’t like being called by their last name now a day. Hajime made a mental note to called Kuriarare by his first name. If Hajime was honest to himself, he prefers to call his peers by their first name unless he has no desire ever speaking to them again. Seeing a little how his name bothers Kenichi it did pique his interest. At the same time, he didn’t want to upset Kenichi about something as trivial as his name. [b]“Then you can call me Hajime then too, Kenichi-san.“[/b] Hajime replied afterward.

Since the beginning of the film, we witnessed Bahar's unhappiness. However, in my opinion when Bahar covered Isa's eyes while he was driving the motorcycle, I sided with him when he got mad at her for the reason that it could have been a fatality for both of them. Nevertheless, after that scene, I could observe how unhappy Bahar was that I felt compunctious for her. Additionally, I realized that after Bahar and Isa broke up, Isa felt lonely and unhappy that he took the decision to find Bahar. However, when she appeared again in the film, we could notice that she was smiling for the first until she realized of Isa's presence. Therefore, I could say that Bahar was happier without Isa in her life. Nonetheless, she was still in love with

His most famous book, Moby Dick, features the observant narrator, Ishmael, aboard the Pequot, a ship captained by the menacing one-legged Captain Ahab. Having lost his limb in a previous voyage to an enormous sperm whale named Moby Dick, Ahab scans the seven seas in manic search of revenge against the giant. Queequeg, Ishmael’s menacing best friend, and the rest of the crew are subjected to extreme jeopardy and later death due to Ahab’s monomaniacal disregard for bad omens and danger. The whale slices the boat clean in half and none survive to tells of its greatness except Ishmael.

Captain Ahab is wanting to seek revenge on the white whale because it took off his leg and he did not get a chance to kill it. He puts finding the white whale over the safety of his crew by taking them into elaborate settings. He did not care that the oil barrels were leaking, that resulted in them losing oil, which meant they were losing money.