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In just three words, Melville sets the tone for the novel, after all “Call me Ishmael” is not quite the same as “My name is ...

She told Abraham to have a child with her servant Hagar. Hagar and Abraham had a son called Ishmael. This was not what God had promised and later Sarah and Abraham had their own son called Isaac.

and Hagar weeps with love for him. Light and dark, dark and light. Her hopeful boy holds his mother tight. This child for whom she’d give her life has saved her here— the way my own child saved me, ...

However, jealousy soon sets in after Hagar gives birth to Ishmael (from whom the prophet Mohammed will descend). Then a miracle happens. Though well past her childbearing years, Sarah and Abraham ...

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