Ishmael Loss of innocence
If any of you have read the book, do you have any ideas on how i should go about writing my essay on Ishmael's loss of innocence in the book. I have a basic idea but i'm not sure what direction to go in.
shareHehe, usually "loss of innocence" means loss of virginity. Uh, there's no sex in the book. I hope. I mean, he does spend the night in bed with Queequeg, awakes with Q's arm around him, and they decide to get "married". But I don't think they mean like that. I sure hope not. God, I sure hope not.
There's more ways to lose innocence than just sexually. Another lss of innocence can be having one's idealistic, romantic preconceptions run up against hard, sometimes ugly, realities. Ishmael probably the whaling life would be an exciting, wholesome, macho dream-adventure. Thanks to Ahab's insanity, it became a tragic nightmare. Ishmael could hardly have reamined the same, trusting, naive young man he was at the book's beginning.
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