For Halloween (sorry posting a bit late!), I dressed up as a whale that has been harpooned. I wore grey shorts and a grey shirt, with red accents (shoes, hair tie, red on the shirt) and I cut out a harpoon from cardboard. Although it may have been a bit of a ‘graphic’ costume, I think it represents a part of the book that has really stood out to me–how the whales are dying in these chapters. Their deaths are gory, violent, painful, helpless, which I find to be a sharp contrast to how human deaths are portrayed. This is also a representation of an industry (whaling) that is not well known or often talked about in the scope of history. There was a period of time in history where whales were hunted as they are in this book, and killed solely for their monetary value, and this costume is a reflection of the extents people were willing to go to for money, for the “American dream”.