Leg and Arm
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Introduction |
This is meant to be a humorous chapter, with more information leading. |
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Questions |
Answer the following questions. 1. How do the two captains greet each other? 2. How did Ahab get up on the boat? Why would that embarrass him? 3. How do the captain and the Doctor talk to each other? Why are they so friendly? What does that say about the Pequod and it’s captain. 4. Does the whale show any malginancy in this attack on the captain? Why is that important? 5. What freaks out Ahab? 6. How does this other captain contrast Ahab? |
Close Reading
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Introduction |
I am asking you to skip a bunch of chapters (not even as challenge) and focus on the last paragraph of chapter 105. |
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Questions |
In your journals, please write four questions |
Ahab’s Leg
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Introduction |
This is a wierdly important chapter, set amidst several chapter that are important to any one focusing on Ahab’s monomania |
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Questions |
Answer the following questions carefully. 1. How did Ahab mess up his peg leg? What does that show? What does his concern for his peg leg show you about the man? 2. What happens when we trace the source of all our miseries. Explain. 3. Complete the quote "every revelation partook more of ________ ________________________________. Explain what this means? How does this relate to the book? 4. Why did Ahab stay in his cabin (two reasons) |
Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin
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Introduction |
The intervening chapters are important to anyone writing about Ahab. |
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Questions |
Answer the following questions 1. If oil is coming up in the pumps, what is happening in the hold? 2. What does Starbuck want to do? Why do you need calm weather for that? Why won’t Ahab do it? 3. How is Ahab a ship? Explain his metaphor. 4. What warning does Starbuck give Ahab? 5. Complete the quote "There is one god that is lord of the eart and _____________________________________" What is the irony here? 6. Why do you suppose he began clearing out the hold? |