Creates an internal conflict
C.) They lead the reader into a description of the novel’s main character, Ahab.
Captain Ahab is the main character in Moby Dic written by Herman Melville. He is the captain of a whaling ship called Pequod. Capitain Ahab lost his leg on a voyage when it was bitten by a white whale called Moby Dic. Ahab has to wear a prosthetic leg. He wants revenge and he uses his ship abd his crew to hunt the whale.
Penelope asks Eurycleia to bring her the bed frame that she and Odysseus once shared.