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Chapter clusters are the chapters on the significance of the color white, and those on the meaning of fire.

The letter also reveals how Melville experienced his development from his 25th year: "Three weeks have scarcely passed, at any time between then and now, that I have not unfolded within myself. The one surviving leaf of proof, "a 'trial' page bearing the title 'The Whale' and the Harper imprint," [145] shows that at this point, after the publisher had been found, the original title still stood. When the boats are lowered, the imagery serves to dwarf everything but Ahab's will in the presence of Moby Dick. In addition to his own experience on the whaling ship Acushnet, two actual events served as the genesis for Melville's tale.The third pattern is the cetological documentation, so lavish that it can be divided into two subpatterns. The first half of the first installment was devoted to an event of remarkable coincidence: early in the month, between the publishing of the British and the American edition, a whale had sunk the New Bedford whaler Ann Alexander near Chile. Ishmael travels in December from Manhattan Island to New Bedford, Massachusetts, with plans to sign up for a whaling voyage. Five were foreigners, four of them Portuguese, and the others were American either at birth or naturalized. p>Read about how we’ll protect and use your data in our Privacy Notice.

The chief mate is 30-year-old Starbuck, a Nantucket Quaker with a realist mentality, whose harpooneer is Queequeg; second mate is Stubb, from Cape Cod, happy-go-lucky and cheerful, whose harpooneer is Tashtego, a proud, pure-blooded Indian from Gay Head; and the third mate is Flask, also from Martha's Vineyard, short, stout, whose harpooneer is Daggoo, a tall African, now a resident of Nantucket.

The next morning, Ishmael and Queequeg attend Father Mapple's sermon on Jonah, then head for Nantucket.

Melville followed Beale's grouping closely, yet adapted it to what art demanded, and he changed the original's prosaic phrases into graphic figures of speech. Cam of course wants to solve the mystery of his dad’s disappearance and he believes the answer lies in following Big Blue. The coin hammered to the main mast shows three Andes summits, one with a flame, one with a tower, and one a crowing cock. A second level is the " poetic", such as in Ahab's quarter-deck monologue, to the point that it can be set as blank verse. Scholars have also noted similarities between Melville's style and that of Robert Burton in his Anatomy of Melancholy.Bentley received the proof sheets with Melville's corrections and revisions marked on them on September 24.

Melville also borrowed stylistic qualities from Renaissance Humanists such as Thomas Browne and Robert Burton. Similar passages include the "marvelous hymn to spiritual democracy" in the middle of "Knights and Squires". Probably to accommodate Melville, Bentley inserted a half-title page in the first volume only, which reads "The Whale; or, Moby Dick".According to critic Walter Bezanson, the chapter structure can be divided into "chapter sequences", "chapter clusters", and "balancing chapters". Accordingly, the dedication to Hawthorne in the American edition—"this book is inscribed to"—became "these volumes are inscribed to" in the British.

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