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13 August, 09:27

Read the excerpt from Chapter 28 of Moby-d**k.

It resembled that perpendicular seam sometimes made in the straight, lofty trunk of a great tree, when the upper lightning tearingly darts down it, and without wrenching a single twig, peels and grooves out the bark from top to bottom, ere running off into the soil, leaving the tree still greenly alive, but branded.

Melville's description of Ahab's scar in this excerpt best develops which theme in the novel?

the ability of man to let go of past wounds

the harmony that exists between man and nature

the ruling of man's present by his past wounds

the destructive power of man's technologies

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  1. 13 August, 09:35
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    I beilive its C because i just took the quiz
  2. 13 August, 09:36
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    The answer is "the ruling of man’s present by his past wounds". The excerpt describes how Ahab became strong through his scars. The scars symbolizes the pain and the struggles of Ahab in the past. Those scars are just evidences that in every pain, wounds will heal. In every troubles in life, your wounds will become scars that will remain in your body to remind you of your growth and how you became stronger in life.
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