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Moby Dick;1. Overview;2. Life Experience;–Melville was born in New York City. Both his parents came from well-to-do families, but later their family busine failed. –Melville’s childhood was happy to the age of 11, when his father died in debt.;–He had little education. He had to leave school at the age of 15, and began to work. He worked as a clerk, a farmer and a teacher, before becoming a cabin boy on a ship at about twenty.; ---There are three things which deserve mention about his life: going out to sea, his marriage and his friendship with Hawthorne.;---Melville was a whaler, the lowest o