Remixing Moby-Dick

If you could write a fan fiction of Moby-Dick what would you write it about? How would you modernize the text to make it more applicable to today's audiences? How would you change the story to make it more interesting?

We mused on this question today in my Methods of Lit Study class, and it was a blast!

One group suggested changing the setting to the streets of some city, and make the "White Whale" a new drug...
Another group turned the crew into a football team and Ahab into the coach (almost like a Remember the Titans angle with the interracial drama)...
Our group went a little dark.

Our group set the scene in The Pequod Memorial Mental Institution. Ahab was a Dissociative Schizophrenic  I really liked ours. It went much further into depth, but I don't really want to get into the details tonight. More to come!!!

Always,
H.Eilene