In his childhood, a phantom hand gripped this character after he was sent to bed early on the summer solstice for climbing up a chimney.
In his childhood, a phantom hand gripped this character after he was sent to bed early on the summer solstice for climbing up a chimney. This character likens his activity to a brief interlude between a presidential election and a battle in Afghanistan. At the beginning of the novel in which he appears, this character is spurred to leave Manhattan by "a (*) damp, drizzly November" in his soul. This character gets the 300th lay from Peleg and Bildad, two Nantucket Quakers, by changing his custom of enlisting as a merchant sailor. In New Bedford, this character hears Father Mapple's sermon on Jonah. This character survives the aftermath of a three-day chase by floating on the coffin of his friend Queequeg. For 10 points, name this narrator of Moby-Dick.
In his childhood, a phantom hand gripped this character after he was sent to bed early on the summer solstice for climbing up a chimney.
Ishmael