Ahab's Wife
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Yes. Page 310.
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Is there a dead animal?
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Whaling.
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Is there pedophilia?
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YES. SO MUCH. Una is a teenager (about 16) when she meets Ahab and he takes sexual interest in her (while noting that she is young enough to be his daughter). He frequently calls her "girl-wife" as a romantic nickname.
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Are there abusive parents?
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Una's father is physically and emotionally abusive to the point where she has to leave her home. She later forgives him.
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Is rape mentioned?
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Mrs. Swaine, a minor character starting on page 128, describes her experience having been kidnapped and assaulted by a ship captain. Her experiences are downplayed and overlooked by the narrative, even when her rapist appears on page later. Later, Mary Starbuck recalls in detail a time she was raped as a child and expresses shame regarding the experience.
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Does a parent die?
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Within the first several pages.
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Are there fat jokes?
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See Mrs. Swain, beginning on page 128. 141 is also particularly bad.
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Does an LGBT person die?
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I would argue yes, although the LGBT characters are identified as queer in a throwaway line that largely doesn't impact the text, and is up to interpretation.
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Is there hate speech?
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Yes. This book also includes a SIGNIFICANT amount of racism in taking character of colors' agency and intelligence away from them. "Islander women" are reduced to sexual stereotypes, Daggoo and Tashtego are stripped of their ability to even speak fluent english, and Mrs. Swain is referred to with anti-black and orientalist derogatory language. A Black character in the first few pages of the book is also reduced to a "mammy" stereotype. There is also ableism, initially with a little person described as "animalistic". Ahab himself is also treated with disrespect in regards to his lost limb.
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