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Moby-Dick Reading #2 Chapters 4-10

Moby-Dick Reading #2 Chapters 4-10. Ishmael’s Insights into Queequeg. “But Queequeg , do you see, was a creature in transition state – neither caterpillar nor butterfly.” Characterization

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Moby-Dick Reading #2 Chapters 4-10

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  1. Moby-Dick Reading #2Chapters 4-10

  2. Ishmael’s Insights into Queequeg • “But Queequeg, do you see, was a creature in transition state – neither caterpillar nor butterfly.” • Characterization • Human understanding: While Queeqeug is introduced and appears to be socially under developed and uncivilized, he may, internally be more civilized than most others, as we will come to understand throughout the journey.

  3. From the titanpad… • Does anyone else find the book really hard to read? I try to give it a chance, but Ishmael just goes on and on about the most boring things. "When he entered I observed that he carried no umbrella and certainly had not come in his carriage, for his tarpaulin hat ran down with melting sleet, and his great pilot cloth jacket seemed almost to drag him to the floor with the weight of the water it had absorbed." WOW. How riveting Ishmael. Can you get to the point without so many rambling run on sentences about nothing? Maybe it's just the way Melville writes but I can't get into it.   • why does father maple climb up the rope into the pulpit in chapter 8 and why is it so significant?

  4. Vocab Unit 1 in Context • “I quickly followed suit, and descending into the bar-room accostedthe grinning landlord very pleasantly” (28). • “We will not speak of all of Queequeg’s peculiarities here; how heeschewedcoffee and hot rolls, and applied his undivided attention to beef-steaks done rare” (29).

  5. Chapter 6 – “The Street” • “There weekly arrive in this town scores of green Vermonters and New Hampshire men, all athirst for gain and glory in the fishery. They are mostly young, of stalwart frames; fellows who have felled forests, and now seek to drop the axe and snatch the whale-lance” (31). • Poetic composition • Word Choice • Syntax

  6. Chapter 7 – “The Chapel” • “It needs scarcely to be told, with what feelings, on the eve of a Nantucket voyage, I regarded those marble tablets, and by the murky light of that darkened, doleful day read the fate of the whalemen who had gone before me, Yes, Ishmael, the same fate may be thine. But somehow I grew merry again” (35). • Word Choice • Establishing Mood • Foreshadowing later plot developments • Planting seeds about the notion of “fate” “Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being. In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me. And therefore three cheers for Nantucket” (36). * Ishmael’s reaction to the death imagery, but also an insight into Melville’s larger purpose…

  7. Chapter 8 – “The Pulpit”

  8. Chapter 8 – “The Pulpit” WHAT YOU MISS IF YOU READ SPARKNOTES… • “Yes, it was the famous Father Mapple, so called by the whalemen, among whom he was a very great favorite. He had been a sailor and a harpooneer in his youth, but for many years past had dedicated his life to the ministry. At the time I now write of, Father Mapple was in the hardy winter of a healthy old age; that sort of old age which seems merging into a second flowering youth, for among all the fissures of his wrinkles, there shone certain mild gleams of a newly developing bloom -- the spring verdure peeping forth even beneath February's snow” (36).

  9. Pulpit, God, Father Mapple? • Many titanpad questions about this section… let’s take a look. • Go to page 37.

  10. Chapter 9- “The Sermon” • Jonah and the Whale • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpekJrO08EM

  11. Chapter 9- “The Sermon” • Important aspects of the chapter • Father’s Mapple’s position before, during, and after the sermon • Jonah’s actions and repentance • Possible implications between the story of Jonah and the story Ishmael is about to tell us

  12. Chapter 10 – “A Bosom Friend” • Paraphrase Ishmael’s statement: “With much interest I sat watching him. Savage though he was, and hideously marred about the face -- at least to my taste -- his countenance yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable. You cannot hide the soul. Through all his unearthly tattooings, I thought I saw the traces of a simple honest heart; and in his large, deep eyes, fiery black and bold, there seemed tokens of a spirit that would dare a thousand devils. And besides all this, there was a certain lofty bearing about the Pagan, which even his uncouthness could not altogether maim” (48).

  13. Explain Ishmael’s meaning… • “There he sat, his very indifference speaking a nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland deceits. Wild he was; a very sight of sights to see; yet I began to feel myself mysteriously drawn towards him. And those same things that would have repelled most others, they were the very magnets that thus drew me. I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy” (51).

  14. Discuss • What are Ishmael’s thoughts on religion in the end of chapter 10, and what thematic implications do these musings offer?

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