Two Years Before the Mast · Character
Chips
The ship's carpenter on the Pilgrim, a skilled but quiet man.
minor
Also known as Poor Chips
First appearance: ii
Chips shows up with force in Chapter XXIII. The page is where that presence becomes real.
The carpenter, a Swede by birth, sometimes musters in the starboard watch and is accounted the best helmsman in the ship.
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In Chapter XXIII: The carpenter, a Swede by birth, sometimes musters in the starboard watch and is accounted the best helmsman in the ship. Later, in XXVIII: Deeply dejected after receiving no letter from his wife; the…
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See Chips in iiNarrative arc
Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
In this chapter, the narrator experiences an emotional peak by reuniting with the *Pilgrim*, his first home at…
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