Worldview Guide for Moby-Dick

by Toby J. Sumpter

"'Call me Ishmael' is one of the most famous opening lines in all of literature. Intriguing, haunting, suggestive, ambiguous the narrator does not say that his name is Ishmael. He summons the reader to call him by that name. And in so doing, the narrator invites the reader not merely into a story but an epic, a tale that encompasses life, death, the universe, God, angels, demons, and man caught in the eye of that cosmic hurricane. If you consent to call him Ishmael, you consent to this voyage." ~ From the Worldview Guide The Canon Classics Worldview Guides provide an aesthetic and thematic Christian perspective on the most definitive and daunting works of Western Literature. The Worldview Guides focus on the big picture (both the good and the bad) without neglecting the details. Each Worldview Guide is a friendly literary coach -- and a treasure map, and a compass, and a key -- to help teachers, parents, and students appreciate, critique, and master the classics. The bite-size WGs are divided into these ten sections (with some variation due to genre): Introduction, The World Around, About the Author, What Other Notables Said, Setting, Characters, & Plot Summary, Worldview Analysis, Quotables, 21 Significant Questions & Answers, and Further Discussion & Review. A free classics test and answer key are also available online.

50 pages, Paperback

Published June 27, 2017

About the author

Toby J. Sumpter serves as pastor King's Cross Church in Moscow, Idaho. He holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts and Culture from New St. Andrews College (2002) and an M.A. in Theological Studies with an emphasis in Church History from Erskine Theological Seminary (2008). He is the author of Blood Bought World and Job Through New Eyes: A Son for Glory. He and his wife, Jenny, have four children, and his favorite hobby is eating peanut butter.