Queequeg - The Story of the Savage in Moby-Dick
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Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, published in 1851, and based off the true event of the sinking of the Essex by an angered sperm whale in 1820, is an extraordinary literary novel with tremendous description, deep moral lessons, and a thrilling plot. The book begins with Ishmael, who travels to Nantucket in search of adventure on a whaling expedition. On his way, he meets Queequeg, a native cannibal to a fictional island in the South Pacific Ocean named Kokovoko. Queequeg accompanies Ishmael on their quest for a broad adventure and to explore the world, but the expedition soon turns into a hunt for Moby-Dick, the great white whale, to avenge Ahab, the captain of the Pequod. Queequeg, in the story, is at first represented as a savage, but Ishmael, being as civilized as he was, accepted his being and the two became friends.