It was one of those less lowering, but still grey and gloomy enough mornings of the transition, when with a fair wind the ship w
as rushing through the water with a vindictive sort of leaping and melancholy rapidity, that as I mounted to the deck at the call of the forenoon watch, so soon as I leveled my glance towards the taffrail, foreboding shivers ran over me. What theme in the novel does Melville allude to with his use of the word "vindictive" to describe the movement of the ship in this excerpt?A. inequality B. rebirth
C. ignorance
D. revenge
In the Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket," by Yasunari Kawabata the grasshopper symbolizes A. the common and mediocre. The narrator views bell crickets as more unique than grasshoppers and thought that Fuijo should simply live his childhood to the fullest instead of filling it with disappointment.
