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My initial reaction to Ahab's Wife was that I believed that overall, it was written very well. I think it was hard to develop a very strong emotion or response to the book as we had started reading it in the middle, yet, I liked the way the information was presented and the manner in which it was written. The sequence of events was logical, and the Una, as the protagonist, caught my attention greatly. I honestly do not think that I have any connection with the book. I believe that the only similarity between me and the book is the idea of the protagonist being a teenage girl. Beyond that, however, I could not fathom myself acting how Una did. Although she is an extremely indpendent female, and I would describe myself as independent, that is by far the only inkling of relation between me and her. I think that like the majority of this course, Ahab's Wife deals greatly with the idea of choice and the fact that we, as humans, are constantly surrounded by a plethora of choices. Already, Una made one of the most signficant choices of her life- for is she was discovered as being a female aboard the Sussex, her life would ultimately be taken. I think that her devotion to her choice epitomizes the idea that is held within this course concerning choice.