What are the reasons that make Ishmael decide to go to sea, knowing how difficult and dangerous this can be?
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What reason does Ishmael give for going to the sea? He was bored, depressed, and suicidal at shore. Ch 1/2: Name the three positions Ishmael doesn't wish to occupy aboard the ship. Ishmael doesn't wish to be a Commodore, Captain, or Cook aboard the ship (or a passenger).
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Ishmael travels from New York to New Bedford, Massachusetts, the whaling capital of the United States. He arrives too late to catch the ferry to Nantucket, the original whaling center of New England; for the sake of tradition, Ishmael wants to sail in a Nantucket whaler. For now, however, he has to spend a few nights in New Bedford. He roams the streets looking for an inn, but those that he finds seem too expensive. He stumbles into, then quickly out of, a church full of wailing and weeping African Americans, where a sermon is being preached on “the blackness of darkness.” Ishmael finally wanders into the Spouter-Inn, owned by Peter Coffin. The ominous name of the inn and the owner satisfy his mood, and the place is dilapidated and sure to be cheap.