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I did this project on my cane because we were supposed to find something that was personal to us. I picked it because I have lots of chronic pain problems and it is helpful. This was one of

Moby Dick is half a wild and fierce adventure, full of death, anxiety and mysticism, but it’s also sort of a love letter to those who love the ocean. I believe that those who are familiar with the Atlantic Ocean and/or the greater Cape Cod area understand the kind of hungry passion he has to get to sea. I’ve read Moby Dick once before, two summers ago in Brewster, Cape Cod. I felt as if I had never read anything more descriptive about the area before. Upon learning that he had never actually been to Nantucket, I began re-reading with that lens in mind. It seems silly now, that I thought he had spent any amount of time there. The heavy descriptive language in the longer passages about Nantucket in the second chapter (The Carpet Bag), are almost taken from a combination of an Encyclopedia and a travel magazine. The whole area is smothered in this strange power- you can simply feel it. I think if I was foreign, I feel like I could still pick up that it was fundamental to something.  I find that the energy is strongest in the sand dunes on the way to Providence, in the Ladies Library in Brewster, and in boats covered in brine in the Nantucket Sound. I feel like that is something Melville is missing from the first few landlocked chapters. However, he masterfully captures everything once he is out of sight of land