Ishmael claims that Queequeg, a “soothing savage” has “redeemed” the world for him. No more my splintered heart and maddened hand were turned against the wolfish world. …I began to be sensible of strange feelings. There are so many good lines in “A Bosom Friend,” but I think this must be my favorite: 10, he admiringly attests that, “Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed.” In a curt but not impolite dismissal of his own culture’s moral compass, Ish declares he’ll, “try a pagan friend…since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.” Like Huck Finn, another American prototype who wishes to escape into the wild, Ishmael will always value raw truth over empty artifice. “Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian,” Ish intones in Ch. While Ishmael’s largehearted acceptance and quick love for Queequeg probably does not seem as eccentric to contemporary readers as it might have been to Melville’s 1851 audience, it’s nevertheless an enduring emblem of Moby-Dick’s expansive spirit. 4, “The Counterpane,” book-ending Ishmael’s Wild New Bedford Nights with Queequeg. 10) is another one of the remarkable key early chapters of Moby-Dick. It twins Ch.
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