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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 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Moby-Dick
Chapters 1-3Overview 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• * Meditation and Water wedded forever• * Going to see as a simple sailor• * “overwhelming idea of the great whale
himself…”
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
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).