A Reflection On Herman Melville's Accomplishments

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merchant who was one of the famous "Mohawks" who boarded
the ship of the East India Company that night of 1773, and dumped the cargo in
to the Boston Harbor. Later Major Melville became the Naval Officer of The Port
of Boston, a post given to him by Gorge Washington. It is like the two blood
lines fitted together perfectly to create Herman Melville. Herman had the
strength of the General, and the crazy hart of the Major.

Herman Melville was "hardly more than a boy" when he ran out to sea
after his fathers death. A young Melville sighed up as a boy on the St.
Lawrence to Liverpool and back to New York. Many of the events that show up in
Melville's Redburn are actuarial events that happened of his first voyage.
After returning home and finding his mothers family fortune gone, Melville
decided to take a journey over land this time to the Mississippi river to visit
his Uncle Thomas. Through out all of Melville's work the image of inland
landscapes, of farms, prairies, ...

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his novel Typee. But "Typee is a work of the
imagination, not sober history, and one constantly crosses in it the invisible
line between "fact" and the life of the fancy and memory."(pg. 61, Arvin)

After Melville's escape he sighed up on a ship called Lucy Ann.
Melville still had a bad leg from his experiences with the natives. This
journey was a short one but none the lass eventful. The journey was full of
different changes in command and mutiny. These events on the , Lucy Ann,
Melville put in to a book he named Omoo. This journey ended in Tahiti.

After a while in Tahiti, Melville decided to join the crew of the
Charles and Henry. When the Charles and Henry got to the Hawaiian ...

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