Herman Melville is an American novelist, short story and poet writer. He was born in New York City at 1819and the third kid of his family. His father died when he was 13, leaving the family in financial straits, so Melville went to find jobs. He became a sailor on a merchant ship. He signed aboard for whaler, but jumped ship on Marquesas Islands. Then he wrote "Typee" (1846)and "Omoo"(1847) which based on his real life experience as he returned to Boston(1844), these two book made Melville very popular. But at his last thirty years, his work was almost forgotten.

Moby-Dick is considered one of the greatest work of Melville, but he only sale 5 copies at the first year this book was published. Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of Melville's friend inspired him to wrote this book. This story is about captain Ahab lost his leg in a whaling voyage, a whale called "Moby-Dick" bites one of his leg off. Ahab is desperate for revenge, he exhorts his men to find Moby Dick, but when they finally caught him, the ship is destroyed by Moby Dick, and only a young sailor called Ishmael survived. In this novel, Melville discusses the conflict between human and nature, he argue that human can never conquer the nature

Quote from Moby Dick "For, thought Starbuck, I am here in this critical ocean to kill whales for my living, and not to be killed by them for theirs; and that hundreds of men had been so killed Starbuck well knew. "

Melville is one of the greatest American writer. Melville's complex allegorical writings were ground-breaking explorations of eternal questions that expanded the scope of the novel as method of artistic and philosophical inquiry. Also, Melville tried to set up a piece of ethical orders in slavery society, he discussed the problem of slavery and the desire to seek racial equality in his novel "Benito Cereno". His works have great impact on American Literature.

I really like the book moby dick, the conflict that Melville bring up in "Moby-Dick", nature vs. human has always been a controversial topic, human taken what they need from the nature, try to conquer it, but nature are so closely related to human that the destruction of the harmony between the two will ultimately lead to human destruction

Revenge can be endless, if you seek on the person who hurt you, they then take revenge on your revenge, it won't have an end. Revenge can be dangerous and usually end up loss on both side. In the novel "Moby Dick", Captain Ahab seeking for revenge because Moby-dick bits his leg off, but the results led to only one person survived from the ship.