ENGLISH 2H06 Chapter Notes -Queequeg, Harpoon, List Of Moby-Dick Characters
23 Nov 2012
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The sea as a replacement of suicide. The sea is tied to the soul of the artist, the boy, everyone. 5-7 why he always goes to sea as a sailor not a chef etc. Nantucket the place where the first dead american whale was stranded. 11 description of a negro church. 11 coffin a common name in nantucket. Let them talk of their oriental summer climes of everlasting conservatories; give me the privilege of making my own summer with my own coals . Oil painting with the whale-like blotch in the middle impaling itself on a ship. 15 jonah works in the whale jaw bone. 15 stooping over and diligently working away at the space between his legs . 19 harpooner trying to sell head. 26 better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken christian . 27 never slept better in my life . Queequeg has steak for breakfast and uses his harpoon to eat.
