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Queequeg is the best friend every young person wishes they had. He is wise, strong, competent, generous, protective, humble, accepting, and nonjudgmental. Ishmaels’ relationship with him provides a highly effective lesson in cross-cultural appreciation. Because Ishmael starts with the same prejudices toward a distinctly other character that students are apt to hold, as well as the ideological principles that most people at least think they ascribe to, “a man can be honest in any sort of skin,” “ignorance is the parent of fear” (Ch. 3), his lesson in cultural tolerance proceeds quickly with theirs as both narrator and readers learn how to read the human text of Queequeg. As Queequeg is understood students experience the liberating expansion of their own sense of relations to others.
Ishmael differentiates between whales that are the possession of those who are fast to them and whales that remain “fair game” for anyone who can catch them. Claiming that those two whaling......

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