This is really important plz answer identify a major theme of the first chase?Use specific details from the dramatic scene to support your answer

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1. Start of paragraph 1 of 14(Common sailor’s area on the deck of a 19th-century whaler. A few comforts; a bowl of apples on the table, places to sit. ELIAS has one heavily bandaged foot up on a crate; he reads a book by the light of a hanging lamp.)

2.Start of paragraph 2 of 14(Enter ZACHARY, MANUEL, and PETE.)

3.Start of paragraph 3 of 14ZACHARY: Elias! We took the whale! She was a beauty—I never seen anything like her! She come right up close to the side of the boat, ‘Lias; there wasn’t any time even to think. I never saw anything like the way she came right up out of the water and dived again. I thought sure she was going to smash the boat in half, the way she was a-thrashin’ her tail and stirring up the water. (Looks admiringly at Manuel, who is slicing a couple of apples) Manuel here was the big hero. He keeps his head, Manuel does. He was on his feet, balancing on the gunwale, never mind the boat pitching and tossing. The harpoon was poised to strike and he knew just the right moment!

4.Start of paragraph 4 of 14ELIAS: (closes his book) I’ll be glad when this ankle gets healed up and then I can do my share again! It frets me not going out in the boat with the crew. So you’ve taken your first whale, Zach!

5.Start of paragraph 5 of 14MANUEL: (guffaws) All by himself! Of course! (pelts Zachary with the apple cores) You were only in the boat because of your strong back, kid! But I confess you rowed well.

6.Start of paragraph 6 of 14ELIAS: You’re awful quiet, Pete. Didn’t get enough excitement with your first chase?

7.Start of paragraph 7 of 14PETE: (slowly) It was real exciting when I first heard Billy yell “There she blows!” and we lowered away. I saw the whale’s spout way off in the distance. I knew it would take a good piece of rowing to get the boat near enough. Zach and Ashok and Caleb and me was rowing till I thought my back would break. Manuel had the harpoon like Zach said. (He pauses) The whale swam right at us; almost stove the boat in. Then Manuel harpooned him.

8.Start of paragraph 8 of 14ELIAS: (understandingly) First time you’ve seen the kill.

9.Start of paragraph 9 of 14MANUEL: What does it matter? It’s only a whale. Whales stay far out here in the ocean, many miles from land. Not like dogs that help us herd sheep. Not like cats that keep mice out of the bread bin. Not like horses we can ride. They don’t help us, they don’t work with us. And more whales born all the time. What does it matter? All that is born must someday die.

10.Start of paragraph 10 of 14PETE: I know about animals, Manuel. I grew up on a farm and sure, we butcher our animals. That’s what they’re for; we raise pigs for ham and bacon, and we wring our chickens’ necks and cook ‘em. But you slaughter them quick, not slow and painful. We never let our animals suffer; we notice when they get sick, and we doctor them. When Shep gets a thorn in his paw, we take it out and we wash his paw and bind it up so it don’t get infected. You hadn’t ought to say “it’s only a whale.”

11.Start of paragraph 11 of 14(Silence for a moment.)

12.Start of paragraph 12 of 14MANUEL: Maybe you judge too harshly, my friend? We don’t kill for the pleasure of it; it is our work. I take pride when the kill is efficient, clean; when the whale don’t get away with harpoon in her side, to die of exhaustion in the waves. Just like you say about the farm. Just like my brothers on the ranch in Argentina. (He pulls out a bundle from under the bench and unwraps it to reveal a dainty parasol, which he opens to show its ribs.) Look at the nice parasol I buy for my girl when the ship dock at Rio de la Plata. These ribs made of whalebone. That lamp? (points to the lamp hanging from the beams) Whale oil. All the lamps all over the world burn whale oil.

13.Start of paragraph 13 of 14ZACHARY: (as Manuel stows the parasol away again) My papa is a chandler in New Bedford. All those candles are made out of whale, too. And my girl Sally; her sister works in Boston in a fancy perfume shop. It’s ambergris that keeps the perfume smelling so pretty; that comes from the whales too. It’s an important job we’re doing.

14.Start of paragraph 14 of 14ELIAS: Maybe one day the boats will be bigger and stronger, and the kill will be quicker and cleaner.