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In a literary approach to the story of Lot and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis 19, the text itself is the primary focus. In order to understand the text to its fullest, the reader must read attentively, formulate thoughtful questions on the text, and animate the evocative text with imagination and creativity. Just when I thought I had a substantial grasp on the narrative text, David M. Gunn carefully explicated Genesis 19 and gave me much more to consider than I had originally caught on to. In observation of how to better read a narrative text I expected to see a much more in depth breakdown of the significance of the characters, plot, and setting. Therefore, the intense dissecting of the text for this approach did not surprise me, but rather appeased me. In Gunn’s example, he focuses on the self-formulated questions of plot and character as the most significant part of the study. He sees relevance in the connecting order of events