The story probably takes place in Ireland in the 1800s were whaling had great importance giving blubber for soap an more important, fuel which was used for streetlights as well as light in the homes. It must be some small town, by the fact that everybody knows each other. Giving it's a story about whaling it probably takes place by the sea.
The narrator is probably quite clever, has read a lot of books about whaling and is interested in geography. He has a great imagination, e.g. about how big a whale is, and probably his idea about the fight man versus beast. He maybe is a little naive, he doesn't try to see things in another perspective, and he keeps his maybe a little romantic idea about how things are. The narrator is probably not very old, if he had been older he would probably have found out that all things are not as lovely as they seem. He gets really surprised once again when the whaler tells him about his affair with Mrs Early: "A thunderclap of silence stopped the morning in tits tracks. His whales past was nothing compared to this".
His meeting with the whaler might have destroyed his little romantic imagination, both because of him seeing the whaler as his idol, and by the fact that the whaler has had some sexual relationship with his teacher Mrs Early. This incident might have changed his whole view on a lot of things, maybe on life; it might not be as good or as innocent as he has thought. .
He might benefit from this experience, everything isn't black and white, good and bad anymore, and it might make him more cautious with drawing conclusions in the future.
The whaler is probably a quite sad man; he drowns his problems with alcohol, lived alone and drank alone. His existence is based upon a lie, a lie which makes him highly respected, which of course is hard to let go off. He thinks that people wouldn't like him if he hadn't been this hero whaler, but just a guy who have travelled a lot.
The Whaler turns out to be everything the boy didn't imagine him to be. He has never been a whaler; he has been running boats in Canada, the Whaler says. ... The Whaler The Whaler is a man, not a hero of any special brand. ... The Whaler is one who lives and drinks alone. ... The ending On the last page the Whaler lets the boy in on a secret; the Whaler has had a sexual relationship with Mrs. ...
He has been interested in the Whaler since he was a small child, the Whaler was his idol, his hero. ... But now when he meets the Whaler he realizes that it has all been a big fat lie. When he first sees him the Whaler is actually and literally taking a dump in the nature. ... He has never been a Whaler, he has just been running boats in Canada. ... We hear that the Whaler has had an affair with the narrator's teacher, the teacher which he respects and likes and the Whaler tells him that. ...
The boy's picture of the Whaler as a: hero, magician and priest. ... But this is not the only thing the Whaler breaks too him. ... She had taught him and his classmates religion while she had had an affair with the Whaler, a fact that shocked the boy even more than the Whaler's whaleless past. ... That the boy also fixes a point about the Whaler's Adam's apple, the indication of a man, stresses the boy's role as a child compared with the Whaler's role as the mighty man. ... The Whaler has created a false identity as a great Whaler in order to fit in and impress ...
His meeting with the whaler might have destroyed his little romantic imagination, both because of him seeing the whaler as his idol, and by the fact that the whaler has had some sexual relationship with his teacher Mrs Early. ... The whaler is probably a quite sad man; he drowns his problems with alcohol, lived alone and drank alone. ... He thinks that people wouldn't like him if he hadn't been this hero whaler, but just a guy who have travelled a lot. ... The narrator clearly learns from his experience with the whaler. ... Both the whaler and Mrs Early appear differently from who t...
The British followed in the 18th century as the chief whalers. ... As the right whale population dwindled, commercial whalers turned their attention to sperm whales. Sperm whales (Physeter catodon) were killed accidentally at first, but whalers soon found them profitable. ... By the early 1800s, New England whalers were exploring the remotest corners of the oceans searching for whales. ... While in the area, the schooner captured a whale off the coast, prompting other whalers to use Brunswick as their winter base of operation. ...
The Blue whale was too swift and powerful for the 19th century whalers to hunt, but with the arrival of harpoon canons, they became a much sought after species for their large amounts of blubber. ... But it was their size and high yield of oil that made them the target of choice for modern commercial whalers. Before mans intervention there were 228,000 Blue whales swimming the oceans of the world.Between 1904 and 1978, whalers scoured the seas for this huge cetacean, most were taken in the Southern Hemisphere, many illegally? ... A Canny Way with Whalers. ... A Canny Way with Whalers....
Queequeg left the island as a whaler, where he learned his harpooning trade. Ishmael accepts Queequeg for who he is, and plans to leave for Nantucket with him to become whalers. ... Ishmael says, since few of the whalers are American-born other than the officers, "the native American liberally provides the brains, the rest of the world as generously supplies the muscles" (Melville 89). ... This, of course, is impossible, but it is not very unlikely for a whale to travel at very fast speeds, which would make the whalers think that it is in two places at once. ...
But in the 1840's whaling became very popular along there Coast's and so the islands became some what of a home base for many whalers of Europe And many other countrys. ... The whalers are blamed for Many things such as increased prostitution and achole and other stuff which affected The people. ...
The Blue whale was too swift and powerful for the 19th century whalers to hunt, but with the arrival of harpoon canons, they became a much sought after species for their large amounts of blubber. ... But it was their size and high yield of oil that made them the target of choice for modern commercial whalers. ... "Between 1904 and 1978, whalers scoured the seas for this huge cetacean, most were taken in the Southern Hemisphere, many illegally" (Satchell 1998). ... A Canny Way with Whalers. ...
