Chapter 106: Moby Dick

In this chapter Ishmeal tells about Ahab falling off of his whale bone leg and wounding him near the groin. This is very ironic, considering that Ahabs leg was taken from him by a whale, and then when he tries to use a whale to fix his leg, it "bites" him back. The motif of the whale eluding or getting revenge of the whaler by sinking, wounding, or destroying a boat appears again.