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Increase the plot, I'm pretty sure!
The answer is: A. obsession
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In the excerpt from "Moby D*ck," by Herman Melville, the narrator describes Captain Ahab's determination and fixation to kill the whale that caught his leg. Thus, Ishmael mentions Ahab's upright posture, his coraugeous persistance, and devoted look towards a dangerous task like encountering the whale.
B. You, because the word you is the first word of the question and the fist letter of the first word at the beginning of a new sentence is capitalized.
He smacked him in the face