How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
[...] the deathlike coldness of the place, the appalling darkness and the dismal sense of our forlorn condition, almost unmanned me. (7.29)
Yes, Shmoopers, even a sailor can be afraid of the dark.
Quote #2
I for one prefer to chance a bold descent into the valley, and risk the consequences. (8.30)
Look at that adjective: he prefers a "bold descent," not just any plain descent will do. What do you make of that?
Quote #3
But we struggled against them manfully, well knowing our only hope lay in advancing. (9.2)
In Typee and many other places, gendered adjectives like "manfully" say that it's part of a man's job to be tough.
Quote #4
'Why,' rejoined he, 'as we cannot retreat, I suppose we must keep shoving along.' (9.6)
Sometimes courage is just another word for "nothing left to lose."
Quote #5
My brain grew dizzy with the idea of the frightful risk I had just run, and I involuntarily closed my eyes to shut out the view of the depth beneath me. (9.20)
This is a good look at the sensory experience of fear. It reminds us of that time we tried stand-up.
Quote #6
Nothing indeed appeared to depress or intimidate this intrepid fellow. Typees or Niagaras, he was as ready to engage one as the other, and I could not avoid a thousand times congratulating myself upon having such a companion in an enterprise like the present. (9.27)
Toby and Tommo complement each other. They go together like peanut butter and jelly (or peanut butter and chocolate…mmm). Or like a brave, strong person and a 'fraidy-cat, slow one.
Quote #7
I felt the necessity of rest and shelter, and that until I had obtained them, I should be wholly unable to encounter such sufferings as we had lately passed through. (10.4)
Tommo needs sleep to get stuff done. We need gallons of high-octane coffee. What do you need?
Quote #8
'Mehevi hanna pippee nuee Happar,' he exclaimed every five minutes, giving me to understand that under that distinguished captain the warriors of his nation were performing prodigies of valour. (17.29)
They're off fighting Happar. For the Typee, that's brave. For Toby (as his head wound would show) that's foolhardy.
Quote #9
Marnoo, that all-attractive personage, having satisfied his hunger and inhaled a few whiffs from a pipe which was handed to him, launched out into an harangue which completely enchained the attention of his auditors. (18.27)
That's quite a display. Where does confidence give way to courage for a warrior like Marnoo?