Moby Dick

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Moby dick 

Written by Herman Melville it is an interesting oceanic story about Ishmael a man who embarks in a journey in which he tells the story that he lived in the ocean trying to follow his desire of becoming in a whaler, through the story he knows many people which would help him in the future to accomplish his desire, in this journey he met Queequeg who would later become in his best friend, together they decide to start their adventure but first they needed a ship so Ishmael went to the docks and he found the Pequod whose capitan was  Ahab an old madman full of wisdom and experience that lost his leg due to Moby Dick and is willing to find Moby Dick the white whale to get his revenge and finally kill her, so Ishmael finally embarks in his journey and leaves behind Nantucket to hunt whales and inside the ship he lives many moments and anecdotes with the crew of the ship such as Peleg and Bildad who were the owners of the Pequod, Stubb, Starbuck, Flask, Dagoo, Toshtego, Fedallah and as the journey progresses the only objective of the crew is to find Moby Dick and kill her. During all the journey the Pequod meets with other ships like th Samuel Enderby, Rachel and the Delight which tells stories about the encounter that they had with Moby Dick, as the end of the story aproaches the pequod suffers bad things like broken equipment and also a typhon but the final encounter with Moby Dick comes and in a figth that last 3 days , in the first day the whale destroys Ahab's harpoon boat, the second day Moby Dick is sigthed again and attracks Ahab's boat in which Fedalla dies and finally in the third day the boats are once again sent after Moby Dick who once again attacks them, the men saw Fedallah's corpse lashed to the whale by the harpoons line and Moby Dick rams the Pequod and sinks it. Ahab is caught to his death and the remaining boats and mens are caught in the vortex created boy the sinking Pequod and pulled to their death but the only one who survives is Ishmael thanks to Queequeg's Coffin to be later found by the Rachel ship.

ON BEHAVIOR

On behavior  

Written by Keith Trimm a physicologist this book is about the human behavior, he shows how this part of the human being works, its parts and the different ways that a person could react to a certain  kind of situation specially when the human meets a new person, the author explains how the behavior works and that the porpuse of this to self- serve because it's not human nature to get along with other people. The book talks about how as the time goes the perspective to see things for humans is always changing and never stays the same, in the middle of the book the author shows the experiences of many people based on topics like cheating, depression,anxiety, etc in order to explain that the human behavior can change due to many facts like time, ethics, revenge and inmoral things. through interviews with several people who lived different situations  (like an officer, a drug dealer, people with marriage problems, people who had sexual abuse, people with disability and specially people who was influenced by their parents) he finds out how the human reacts to those kind of  situations and how the human can overcome to those situations, by the end of the book the author talks about his  observations, his thougths about the people who  he interviewed and his own experiences related to a variety of topics like religion,his thoughts about the human behavior, the things that he used to do in the past and the time that he was doomed, his experience with the diabetes (how he has overcome this disease) and the explanation of some problems with the phychologists and the treatment for this problem.