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What is symbolic about the material that ahab used to make his leg?

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The leg is made from a whale’s jawbone, symbolizing Ahab’s desire to take revenge on the white whale that injured him.

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The leg is made from a whale’s jawbone, symbolizing Ahab’s desire to take revenge on the white whale that injured him.
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