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Moby-Dick

Moby-Dick. Chapters 1-3 Overview and Discussion. Where are we?. New Bedford, MA - Today. New Bedford Whaling Museum. http://www.whalingmuseum.org/learn/students. What Ishmael may have seen…. Reading #1 Overview. Chapter 1 – Loomings * Ishmael introduces himself to the reader

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Moby-Dick

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  1. Moby-Dick Chapters 1-3 Overview and Discussion

  2. Where are we?

  3. New Bedford, MA - Today

  4. New Bedford Whaling Museum • http://www.whalingmuseum.org/learn/students

  5. What Ishmael may have seen…

  6. Reading #1 Overview • Chapter 1 – Loomings • * Ishmael introduces himself to the reader • * Meditation and Water wedded forever • * Going to see as a simple sailor • * “overwhelming idea of the great whale himself…”

  7. Ishmael in New Bedford • Chapter 2- The Carpet Bag • * Romanticism/ Nostalgia “For my mind was made up…” (7) • Mood / Foreshadowing “ It was a very dubious looking…night” (7). • Ishmael’s wandering through the streets of new Bedford (8) • Ishamael’s “voice”- final line of the chapter

  8. Ishmael, meet Queequeg! • Chapter 3- The Spouter Inn * “At last I slid off into a slight doze and had pretty nearly made a good offing to the land of Nod, when I heard a heavy footfall in the passage, and saw a glimmer of light come into the room from under the door” (20). * “I was so afraid of him that I was not game enough just then to address him” (21).

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