>Call me Ishmael
It's probably the most famous opening line ever but it's literally just saying his name. Is there some great significance here? Was it supposed to reveal something about the character? Or is it some kind of allusion?
Call me Ishmael
Matthew Perez
Logan Morris
it’s honestly not a very good book, highly overrated american show offy nonsense
Carter Garcia
It's just a memorable beginning.
>Was it supposed to reveal something about the character?
Well it introduces the character and narrator in a way that is endearing and friendly.
Not everything has to be 3deep5u.
Levi Lee
Ishmael is Melville's self-insert, when he wrote that line he was being literal.
Wyatt Edwards
i read one annotated version that says "call me" implies it is not his real name, that he was outcast from his family or something, can't remember exactly it has been years
Isaac Howard
how about reading the motherfucking bible you retards
Aaron Perez
>Again, I always go to sea as a sailor, because they make a point of paying me for my trouble, whereas they never pay passengers a single penny that I ever heard of. On the contrary, passengers themselves must pay. And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid. The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us. But being paid,—what will compare with it?
Tyler Martin
but Ishmael is only relevant in the Quran
Dylan Roberts
the Koran is just the Bible for terrorists
Jace Rodriguez
Ishmael was Abraham's son by hagar. His first born who was cast out when Isaac, a legitimate son, was born. That's old testament stuff.
It has parallels to melville's own life.