Symbols In Moby Dick

Read the excerpt from the beginning of Chapter 5 of Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott. "What in the world are you going to do now, Jo?" asked Meg one snowy afternoon, as her sister came tramping through the hall, in rubber boots, old sack, and hood, with a broom in one hand and a shovel in the other. "Going out for exercise," answered Jo with a mischievous twinkle in her eyes. "I should think two long walks this morning would have been enough! It's cold and dull out, and I advise you to stay warm and dry by the fire, as I do," said Meg with a shiver. "Never take advice! Can't keep still all day, and not being a pussycat, I don't like to doze by the fire. I like adventures, and I'm going to find some." Which best explains why Alcott begins the chapter with one character asking another character a question? to develop one character in more detail than another to help the reader visualize the characters' appearances to stimulate the reader's desire to understand a character's motives to establish the setting for the characters' conversation.

Which excerpt from Chapter 28 of Moby-Dick best develops the theme of the novel concerning man's insistence on manufacturing his own destruction. Nevertheless, ere long, the warm, warbling persuasiveness of the pleasant, holiday weather we came to, seemed gradually to charm him from his mood. And not only that, but moody stricken Ahab stood before them with a crucifixion in his face; in all the nameless regal overbearing dignity of some mighty woe. There seemed no sign of common bodily illness about him, nor of the recovery from any. Whether that mark was born with him, or whether it was the scar left by some desperate wound, no one could certainly say.

Read the excerpt from Chapter 28 of Moby-Dick. It resembled that perpendicular seam sometimes made in the straight, lofty trunk of a great tree, when the upper lightning tearingly darts down it, and without wrenching a single twig, peels and grooves out the bark from top to bottom, ere running off into the soil, leaving the tree still greenly alive, but branded. Melville's description of Ahab's scar in this excerpt best develops which theme in the novel? the ability of man to let go of past wounds the harmony that exists between man and nature the ruling of man's present by his past wounds the destructive power of man's technologies

Read the excerpt from the beginning of Chapter 1 of Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson. SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace and go back to the time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow inn and the brown old seaman with the sabre cut first took up his lodging under our roof. Which best explains Stevenson's reason for beginning the chapter with this paragraph? Stevenson creates confusion in the reader with a narrator who explains that he is writing a story because he has been asked to do so by several other characters. Stevenson creates interest in the reader with mention of still undiscovered treasure and the arrival of a mysterious character in the narrator's life. Stevenson creates unease in the reader with a detailed account of the problem the main character has to overcome to reach a solution. Stevenson creates a clear visual picture in the reader's head with a strong description of the story's setting without giving its actual location.

Read the excerpt from the beginning of Chapter 1 of Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson. SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace and go back to the time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow inn and the brown old seaman with the sabre cut first took up his lodging under our roof. Which best explains why the narrator mentions the gentleman's names in the opening sentence? to establish credibility, suggesting many want to hear his tale to foreshadow the story's ending, as personalities are revealed to give background information on his father's occupation to help the reader visualize the inhabitants of the inn

Which best explains the purpose of the first two paragraphs of Chapter 28 of Moby-Dick? They provide background information on the tasks required of the crew on a whaling ship. They explain Ahab's inner motivation for sequestering himself inside his cabin. They lead the reader into a description of the novel's main character, Ahab. They give the reader a detailed description of the crew's ship, the Pequod.

Read the excerpt from Chapter 28 of Moby-Dick. It was one of those less lowering, but still grey and gloomy enough mornings of the transition, when with a fair wind the ship was rushing through the water with a vindictive sort of leaping and melancholy rapidity, that as I mounted to the deck at the call of the forenoon watch, so soon as I leveled my glance towards the taffrail, foreboding shivers ran over me. Reality outran apprehension; Captain Ahab stood upon his quarter-deck. Which of the novel's themes is best developed in this excerpt from Chapter 28 of Moby Dick? man's ability to outsmart fate man's harmony with nature man's control over nature man's inability to alter fate

Which best explains the symbolism behind Melville's use of the word "brand" to describe the scar on Ahab's body in Chapter 28 of Moby-Dick? The source of Ahab's scar has been defeated. The source of Ahab's scar now owns him. Ahab is at peace with his scar. Ahab is proud of his scar's significance.

Which best explains the symbolism behind Melville's comparison of Ahab to a solid bronze cast in Chapter 28 of Moby-Dick? Melville is symbolizing the impermanent nature of Ahab's character. Melville is symbolizing the intellectual nature of Ahab's character. Melville is symbolizing the inflexible nature of Ahab's character. Melville is symbolizing the impolite nature of Ahab's character.

Read the excerpt from Chapter 28 of Moby-Dick. It had previously come to me that this ivory leg had at sea been fashioned from the polished bone of the sperm whale's jaw. How is the fact that Ahab's leg is made from whale bone significant to the novel's theme of man versus nature? It signifies that Ahab has pitted himself against nature in an effort to dominate it. It signifies that Ahab lives a life in harmony with the natural world. It signifies that Ahab has made a choice to surrender to the power of the whales he hunts. It signifies that Ahab see himself as an equal and dependent part of a greater whole.