The end of chapter 110 stuck out to me because the novel further describes the unconventional that Queequeg represents. Throughout the whole book, not only was there racist and derogatory comments about the “savage harpooners”, but more so the novel is fascinated by his individual determination and willpower; whereas, we see the rest of the crew influenced by the incentive of doubloons– except Stubb of course. The line starts isolating Queequeg with his symbolic tattoos: “And this tattooing, had been the work of a departed prophet and seer of his island, who, by those hieroglyphic marks, had written out on his body a complete theory of the heavens and the earth. and a mystical treatise on the art of attaining the truth…”(Melville 524). His “near-death” testimony is told 520 pages later, and after Ahab’s almost homicidal attempt on Starbuck, to now kind of orchestrate a stark distinction between Queequeg and the rest; and in this dinstinction, still put Queequeg as put on the mercy seat of someone greater. By pointing out his tattoos and describing them as sacred, it categorizes Queequeg as breaking the bounds of standard because determining your own life trajectory for the rest seems to not be possible. Compared to Ishmael, his mission and life duties is to the seas, not finding himself anywhere afterward. By viewing his body as “the art of attaining truth”, it does not necessarily give Queequeg the advantage of a will to say or power to determine, however, the line is indicative that he is odd. The “departed seer and prophet” tell a tone of hopeful validation that his power is not his own but was given, implying a more significant issue within the book: examining Queequeg through the lens of a non-marginalized minority. Instead of praising Queequeg for breaking free from life’s hold, he gets more speculated by third person view. This overall points out the way in which society looks upon those who managed to get out of the matrix; and the line portrays how freewill is illustrated as a myth so that no one should desire to fascinate themselves with human individuality, but adhere to working class labor to preserve the social hierarchy, despite the working conditions or treatment from time to time.