Moby Dick gams

Herman Melville is considered to be a great American novelist, and is credited with writing the novel, “Moby Dick”. “Moby Dick” is a novel about voyage of the Pequod seeking revenge on a sperm white whale, Moby Dick. The Pequod sets sail on Christmas Day from Nantucket port with crew of harpooners and sailors. While sailing along the Pacific Ocean the Pequod has nine gams with other whaling ships. A gam is “a social meeting …

…own death and this is the first. As you can see each one of these gams plays an important part in the novel, “Moby Dick”. The major concern of these gams is the problems with communication. This foreshadows the problems everyone has when trying to communicate with Ahab. Ahab will refuse to listen and want to do it his way. Moby Dick is full of foreshadowing and themes, this is just one of the many.