WHAT: This school year, I'm going to read Moby Dick.
WHO: It's by Herman Melville.
WHERE: At my house, of course.
WHY: Because I want to read a long book, and I believe Moby Dick holds the world record.
WHEN: I think I'll be able to read it over a course of 3 months.
HOW: With my eyes, and brain, of course. WHY (again): My mom's kinda making me read it, because "I need to step up my education a little bit. I need to make goals, then achieve those goals." 5 INTERESTING FACTS: 1. Moby dick was based on a whaler's true encounter with a whale he called mocha dick. 2. The book is sometimes known as "The Whale". 3. After world war 1, not many people were reading Moby dick, until British author, Carl van Doren, wrote a book called Studies in Great American Literature, mentioning Melville a few times. About a year later, Doren wrote a book called American Novel, going into greater detail about moby dick. 4. Herman Melville was also a poet. 5. Herman earned only just over 10,000 dollars for writing his whole lifetime. He wasn't financially succesfull.