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HERMAN MELVILLE: LIFE - Coggle Diagram
HERMAN MELVILLE: LIFE
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Hard life on the ship: desertion of the ship and spent a short period of time in the Marqueas Islands where he knew the Typees
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When he returned home, in 1846 he wrote: Typee: A peep at Polynesian Life and a year later Omoo
The story takes place in the 1830s or 1840s in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
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Ahab, the captain of the whaler Pequod, has devoted his life to hunting down and killing a white sperm whale called Moby Dick.
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Ahab wounds Moby Dick, but in its rage the animal destroys the Pequod and its crew.
Only good Ishmael is not caught in the vortex of the sinking ship and manages to float upon a coffin.
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