Moby Dick Chapter 1

The seventh section of Moby Dick should be categorized as emphasizing, meaning to point out because of importance.

In chapter 93, Melville essentially dedicates this chapter to Pip. Pip is the Pequod’s cabin boy and was selected to be a replacement member in Stubb’s harpoon boat. However, when Stubbs crew successfully catches a whale, Pip becomes frightened when the whale strikes the section of the boat beneath his seat, and he jumps from the boat. Pip’s actions angered his shipmates because he gets tangled in the lines. To make matters worse, the lines wrapped around Pip were preventing him inhaling the needed oxygen. This forces Stubb’s crew to lacerate the lines restraining the whale in order to save Pip’s life. Additionally, Stubb instructs Pip to never to jump out of the boat again. Furthermore, Stubb informs Pip that if he launches his body back into the water, he would not be saved. Unfortunately, fear once again takes control of Pip, and without even considering Stubb’s ominous threat, Pip jumps again back into

the water. This infuriated Stubb, and with the intention of teaching Pip a lesson, he leaves Pip alone in the middle of the sea. Stubb’s decision drives Pip insane, but luckily for him, Stubb has mercy on Pip and has his ship return to rescue the cabin boy.
After identifying Pip’s influence on the Pequod’s whale fishing success, Melville continues by devoting the next chapter to Ishmael's fascination with the spermaceti.

Since the spermaceti is taken from a whale’s head quickly cools into lumps, the sailors are required to squeeze the substance back into liquid. Ishmael is filled with enthusiasm for the spermaceti, and he spends the majority of the morning period squeezing the spermaceti. Ishmael then begins to describe his unintentional contact with the other crew members whose hands were also in the basin. He also describes some of the other tissues the whale’s oil is derived. He gives depicts the Pequod’s “blubber-room,” where the blubber is processed and prepared to be used in products, such as heating lamps. Ishmael even goes as far as to inform the reader that the blubber-room is a foreboding location since the workers commonly lose toes to the sharp edges of the cutters used to slice the

blubber.
In conclusion, since Melville selects a specific character as the primary topic of these chapters, and shows how their actions specifically move the plot, the seventh section of Moby Dick can be defined as emphasizing.