Who tried to discourage ishmael from sailing on the pequod?

The man who tried to discourage Ishmael and Queequeg was Elijah. Elijah was introduced as the man who was strange, shabbily dressed and the one who was suddenly in the picture trying to tell them about the journey to Pequod. He asked if Ishmael and his mate belonged to the “ship”. Ishmael asked for confirmation if the ship he was referring to was the one going to Pequod. Elijah tried to discourage them by asking questions regarding whether what will happen to their souls if they will continue to sign up for the ship who was led by Ahab. Elijah said that to sign for Ahab’s ship meant that they have to sign their souls away. Elijah in the story was depicted as unwilling to say to Ishmael and Queequeg   straight out what he saw in his prophecies regarding the ship and its crew.

answer: secession

secession, as it applies to the outbreak of the american civil war, comprises the series of events that began on december 20, 1860, and extended through june 8 of the next year when eleven states in the lower and upper south severed their ties with the union. the first seven seceding states of the lower south set up a provisional government at montgomery, alabama. after hostilities began at fort sumter in charleston harbor on april 12, 1861, the border states of virginia, arkansas, tennessee, and north carolina joined the new government, which then moved its capital to richmond, virginia. the union was thus divided approximately on geographic lines. twenty-one northern and border states retained the style and title of the united states, while the eleven slave states adopted the nomenclature of the confederate states of america.

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democracy

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