1. Have you read "Moby Dick"?
2. If yes, how did it influence the rest of your life?
2007-09-05 13:14:09 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Required reading in high school, and since I love Gregory Peck, I just recently watched the movie again. It must have been slow on Q&A! I can't say it infuenced the rest of my life, but I have never had a burning desire to chase any living creature to the point of endangering myself or others.
2007-09-05 16:42:28 · answer #1 · answered by One Wing Eagle Woman 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I liked both. I did well in high school and college. I had a lot of friends at both. High School was free for me, so I miss that. I had a scholarship to college so tuition was free, but I had to pay for books. The books are usually expensive. In college you are not in class all day and can make your own schedule, so you have more time to spend on other non school things. I had good teachers in both high school and college. I had to study less in college, because I didn't have 7 classes at once like i high school. But that's because I took no more than 4 at a time. You can choose if you go full time or part time too.
2016-04-03 05:34:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yeah. The teachers always choose big depressing books. Moby's Dick was a big mother!
2007-09-05 15:18:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Thankfully, no, it wasn't required reading. Bad enough that I had to endure Animal Farm. I've never read Moby Dick, and I honestly never plan to.
2007-09-05 13:17:42 · answer #4 · answered by iamnoone 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Write now, in college I am required to read: Literature across Cultures, 5th edition by Sheena Gillespie, Tony Pipolo, Terezinha Fonseca
2007-09-05 17:26:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I actually read it on my own, because I always heard it was the great American classic. I enjoyed it very much. I also read the true story of the ship on which the story is based. (I love true adventure stories.)
I do not think it has influenced me very much. I was impressed with myself for sticking with reading it even when I didn't *have* to. : )
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2007-09-05 13:39:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes, in high school, but it made no impact on my life. I can barely remember what it was about. However, my best friend was in the movie "Jaws", and that was much more interesting! I've seen it a gazillion times & it never gets old. :))
2007-09-05 17:01:53 · answer #7 · answered by beano™ 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I was required to read it in my public school days and I thought at first that I would hate it. It turned out that I loved it and enjoyed the read, despite the obscure language. I wouldn't say it changed my life, but it did anticipate a few things for me.
I understood empathically a few things about Melville from the first read, see.
2007-09-05 13:21:46 · answer #8 · answered by Jack B, sinistral 5 · 5⤊ 2⤋
1. Yes, I read it in high school.
2. I've really forgotten everything except for a few punchlines. "Towards thee I roll, thus all-evil but unconquering blah blah blah,"
2007-09-05 13:18:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
no 2 of the books we had to read were lord of the flies and chrysalids. and it was a catholic school.
couldn't quite figure that one out but i was pretty young and didn't voice my questions much then.
i enjoyed both books and lord of the flies caused me to really start to think about the human psyche
2007-09-05 13:36:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋