Throughout the novel, it seems like the crazy people are always in control. This is especially true in the case of Gabriel and Ahab. Both of these two seem to wield a sort of demagogic influence over the hands on their respective ships. While they both preach a different sermon, their appeal stretches to nearly all but the rational thinkers such as Starbuck. All too often the crazy receive power, even the power of an entire nation (Stalin, amedemajad, and Hitler). Have you ever been influenced by a person who you know sounds crazy, but still you listen? Or have you ever been in a similar situation as the Starbuck who resisted crazy charismatic appeals?
-FatrickD
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When i was a wee person I took this AP English course my senior year of high school. There was this woman teaching the class who had these peculiar ideas on how we should write. She kept talking about writing in third person active voice but then when i got to college my engineering professors told that i should write in third person passive voice and that active was evil. But in high school i listened to her and wrote everything in that style and then made it to college land, wrote like that, and my grade went down because of it.
billybob31
all the love in the world to ya Mrs. Baird. Thanks for all the teaching about writing and thinking.
It's like A Christmas Carol, and you're the ghost from AP past! Good to hear from you, Matt (I'm pretty sure this was your nom-de-plum!) Ahem, if you remember correctly from the "Revising for Style" packet, there was a section concerning writing in active voice for Humanities classes (such as AP English) versus passive voice for scientific writing (such as engineering classes). Seems to me both of your teachers were...cough, cough... right. Perhaps you skimmed that section...or perhaps it was when you were convalescing from your surgery...? In any case, you should stop in and visit us!!!
I have a friend who I know isn't particularly good for me, many of my friends have agreed with that fact. However, for some reason, I still listen to him and I let what he says have a fairly large amount of control over me, which is wrong. I guess in a way I'm like Starbuck? I know what he says is crazy and wrong, yet there is something binding me to him.
maskedexcitement13
But Mrs. Baird I still don't know how to read. No Child Left Behind kept pushing me through school when I wasn't even reading at the right level. I'd like to visit but it wont be till after the new year, my schedule for the next couple days is very full.
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