Moby-Dick Questions Chapters 118 and 119: How will the Pequod navigate without
- How will the Pequod navigate without her quadrant? What is Ahab upset?
- Which of the whaling boats is damaged in the typhoon? What are “elbowed lances of fire”? (Pg. 413)
- What are the Candles” that are referenced throughout chapter 119?
- Why do Stubb and Ahab take the fires to be good omens?
- At the end of chapter 119, a fourth “candle” is lit. What is it and how is it lit?
