Author MOBY DICK

Herman Melville

By: Herman Melville

Genre
Novel, Epic,
Adventure Fiction,
Sea Story NEW
VOCABULARY

Settings
-Time: barrel:
-Place: cylindrical container made of
wooden staves with metal hoops
around them.

coffin:
long, narrow box made of wood,
in which a body is buried or
cremated.

harpoon:
Theme A spear-like missile attached to a
long rope and launched by hand
Whale's hunt or fired from a pistol, it is used to
catch whales and other large sea
creatures.
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Rate This Book
favorite it's really a good book, I just
prefer the harry potter sci-fi
ones

parts

Main
Characters
- Capitan Ahab
-Ismael
-Queequeg
-Moby Dick
 Problem (Conflict)
Ahab dedicates his ship and crew to destroying Moby
Dick, a white sperm whale, because he sees this
whale as the living embodiment of all that is evil and
malignant in the universe.

Main Event
crossing of the Pequod whaling ship, commanded by
Captain Ahab, together with Ismael and the harpooner
Queequog in the obsessive and self-destructive
pursuit of a great white sperm whale.

Resolution
Ahab and the Pequod finally sight Moby Dick for the
first time and close with him in their fatal battle.
Climactic Moment: Moby Dick destroys the Pequod
and Ahab. Only Ishmael survives to tell the tale.