Chapter 4 analysis
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Ishamael's childhood and his experience with Queequeg are parallel in their principium individuationis, or the way in which the individual knows things as phenomena.
When Ishamael was a child, he was climbing up the chimney, like the sweep he had seen do a few days earlier. His stepmother pulled him out by the legs and sent him to bed around two o'clock, it was June 21st the summer solstice. He eventually fell asleep and when he awoke the light that was there when he had drifted off was replaced by darkness. He felt as if he had a hand placed in his. Later he realized that there was never really a hand in his, he realized he had imagined it. But now, he had the same thing happen except that this time there really was a hand in his. There was an arm over his body, over the counterpane.
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