What does Ahab mean when he calls Starbuck a “tossed sapling” standing “amid the general hurricane”?

what part do you need with?

first of paragraph? and second of statment?

don't submit such stupid questions!

these have to be in your own words

the correct answer option for this is: false.

explanation:

we are given the following statement 'hawthorne thought of himself as a novelist' which is false.

the truth is that nathaniel hawthorne thought of himself as a romancer, rather than a novelist.

though it is ironic of him of him to consider himself a romancer rather than a novelist despite of the innocent women killings in the salem witch trials which occurred in colonial massachusetts between 1692 and 1693 .