Moby Dick

Pip

what is the relationship between pip and Ahab ?

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Ahab is the ship's captain. Pip is merely a low ranking sailor. Over the course of the novel, Pip goes crazy after being thrown into the ocean. Ahab, feeling compassion for the boy, takes him in his cabin in order to look out for him.

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