Cyclist is to ride as pedestrian is to walk. You see, if you are a cyclist you would be riding a bike. And if you were a pedestrian you'd be walking.
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B. to draw a connection between the speaker and the reader
This detail exemplifies the larger theme of the futility of human efforts to dominate nature.
The entire novel revolves around that theme - whether Ahab as a human is capable of dominating Moby Dic, which is a whale and thus a representative of nature. Nature seems to be winning constantly and humans are ultimately unable to conquer it because nature is unconquerable. <span />
