Moby Dick- a short review on the giant work.

[image error]         An amazing American classic. I wanted to read it for quite some time but I never got to get around it, but somehow I completed it. The read is definitely not an easy one. It is preachy and quite complicated at times. Ishmael is the narrator, who goes to Nantucket to aboard the Pequod. He meets a cannibal called Queequeg and they both aboard the ship. The ships captain is Ahab, who remains in his cabin through the first part of the journey and he has lost a leg as well. The leg was butchered by the great white whale or Moby Dick. Till the end we  never meet Moby Dick, but suddenly the battle begins, and the whale is a ruthless monster and it kills Ahab. (I didn’t expect it to end this way) It seems only Ishmael seems to have lived to tell the tale. 

It is nonetheless epic in canvas, and seamed throughout with myth and a dark, anti humour. It stands at the very centre of American Literary achievement.

Similar books are:

Treasure Island by R. L Stevenson for Children.

Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.

These are all amazing stories of adventure out in the sea. Critical analysis of Moby Dick can be a momentous task, and so I am not going to try it. Happy reading.

If you cannot

read the book, you can see the movie.