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Passionate about fiction | Creator of #YouShouldveBeenAnEnglishMajor | Co-owner of @enger_grove | Book marketing coach: Good Enough Book Marketing. 👇🏻

Some wisdom from the second most famous whale stor

Some wisdom from the second most famous whale story, after Jonah.

Moby Dick can sometimes get a bad rap for being too long and boring. It is long, that is undeniable. But if you put in the time, you will be rewarded with a gripping adventure story that is anything but dull!
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#youshouldvebeenanenglishmajor #mobydick #hermanmelville #mobydickquotes

May you all feel as cozy and content as Agnes on a

May you all feel as cozy and content as Agnes on a dark winter night. #cats #catsofinstagram #catstagram #catlady

Thanksgiving memories at the farm. 🥰

Thanksgiving memories at the farm. 🥰

*THANKSGIVING SPECIAL** Instead of a short quote

*THANKSGIVING SPECIAL**

Instead of a short quote for this week's #youshouldvebeenanenglishmajor , I am doing some storytelling. This video is about 20 minutes, but when you find some free time, it's worth the full watch!

When I first began studying literature in college, I assumed I was just there to examine stories already written and considered classics. What I didn't know (but grew to love), was that part of the job of those of us trying to celebrate a culture's stories and legends is to FIND those stories. That is particularly true of early eras where writers and artists were not recording verbatim the details of their heroes. In studying early America, the only written material we have are letters and journals, not literature. As a student, I combed through all these documents, learned how to research carefully and consider historical and cultural context, and pieced together my favorite stories of people (characters) that I found mentioned across multiple sources.

This is one such narrative that has had to be "pieced together" by scholars and historians to see the full narrative of this man's life. He didn't write his story down himself. It's important to note that this is a story of a Native American man that we only know about through documentation by White men. That said, most scholars across ideologies do find this story credible, mostly because we have multiple sources that all seem to agree on a similar narrative and personality of this man's life.

If you want to read the primary sources about him yourself, the two I pull from most for this story are "Of Plymouth Plantation" by William Bradford and "Mourt's Relations" by Edward Winslow.

This is one of my favorite stories of early America. And makes history really come alive! ( @hbo - I have a new mini series for you!)

Enjoy having the image of Thanksgiving given a little spice!

#youshouldvebeenanenglishmajor #thanksgiving #thefirstthanksgiving #americanheroes #americanliterature #amlit #nativeamericancharacters #tellnativestories #squanto #americanhistory

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