Part 1 of Essay
Famous author E.B. White once offered this quote, "Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without delays: don't write about Man, write about a man." Although Herman Melville was neither young or inexperienced, in he chose to write not about Man, but about one particularly honest and handsome sailor named . Not o ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... that he was special and pure. A jewel in the midst of average seamen. He was the best. Not only was Billy the best, but he also was physically perfect. Even his shipmates had noticed his flawless appearance. In the following text, Billy is appropriately named for his attributes by the narrator: "The moral nature was seldom out of keeping with the physical make. Indeed, except as toned by the former, the comeliness and power, always attractive in masculine conjunction, hardly could have drawn the sort of h ....