Which best explains melville’s reason for describing how the sight of ahab causes “foreboding shivers” in the narrator at the beginning of chapter 28 of moby-i ick

Ithink the best similarities of the two of them is that both writers wrote about things and events that are going on in their country and the comparison of them is that american writer wrote about war, racism and slavery, and politics in a current time while european writer are all about religions. i hope this would  

The answer should be d.