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Ishmael is the only survivor in "Moby Dick". He survives by clinging to a floating coffin after the sinking of the Pequod, eventually being rescued by the Rachel.
The whale wins. All die but Ishmael who does not drown by floating on Queequeg's coffin.
In "Moby Dick," Ishmael is the lone survivor of the Pequod's wrecked crew. He survives by clinging to Queequeg's coffin while the ship sinks. Ishmael is then rescued by the Rachel, another whaling ship, and is the only crew member to survive the ordeal.
In fiction writing, foreshadowing is a technique used to alert the reader to an event or circumstance that will take place later in the story or novel. This is often done by introducing a person, item or event that will play an important, unforeseen role in the plot. For example, in Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Ishmael meets a sailor named Queequeg, who shows his coffin to Ishmael. The sailor says he will take the coffin aboard ship with him, because the sea is dangerous, and one never knows when death will strike. This scene foreshadows the epilogue, in which Ishmael saves himself by clinging to Queequeg's floating coffin, after the rest of the crew is killed. (This scene is also ironic, since the coffin, a symbol of death, saves Ishmael's life.)
In the novel "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville, the story ends with Captain Ahab being killed by the white whale, Moby Dick, during a final confrontation. The ship sinks and only Ishmael survives, floating on a coffin and reflecting on the nature of vengeance and the power of the sea.
Herman Melville was a critique of transcendentalists like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. While they thought a sublime life was to be found alone in nature, Melville (and other contemporaries like Nathaniel Hawthorne) sought to show that nature can be dangerous and inhospitable. Such pursuit of isolation and nature will eventually destroy the exile, much like Captain Ahab. Ishmael, being the only one to declare himself temporarily at sea, is the only one to return.
Ishmael and Queequeg find a room at the Spouter-Inn, located in the fictional town of New Bedford, Massachusetts. The inn is run by a character named Peter Coffin.
Starbuck, the first mate, Stubb, the second, and Flask, along with the rest of the crew prepared the Pequod for its voyage.
stone coffin in which wood coffin was placed
Ishmael's mother was Hagar, Abraham's maid-servant.
Probably not. Technically, if we were floating, we wouldn't be able to move around.
My Ishmael was created in 1997-12.