By The Waters Of Babylon

By the Waters of Babylon is about a son of a priest & becoming priest by the name of fanny who goes on a quest to find himself & show he is worthy to become a priest. Just as in the movie The Village thither be prohibit tooshies enter into. Its forbid to go to any of the curtly places except to search for metal & he who touches the metal must be a priest or son of a priest or they will die. Johns fetch takes him on a voyage to search for metal & it is exclusively after John touches the metal does his father perceive that John is truly his son and would be a priest.As the time comes for John to become a priest, he has to undergo a purification rite. Johns father tells him to look into the fire and to ordinate what he sees in his fantasys. John sees a river, and, beyond it, a big Dead Place and in it the gods walking. His father c every last(predicate)s this a strong dream that may eat you up. He indeed makes his son promise not to travel to the east and cross the great river to visit the Place of the Gods for these places ar forbidden to enter. His father sends him off on a spiritual journey, barely does not know he is going tothe forbidden places of the Gods. As John prays & fasts he takes a journey through the forest for eight days, and crosses the forbidden river Ou-dis-sun.He crosses it & does not die. Once John institutes to the Place of the Gods, he steps on the ground & he does not burn. Instead he only feels nada and magic. As he travels through the place of the Gods in search of feed he sees a statue of what seems to be a God that says ASHING on its base. art object being chased by dogs and finds a building with stories he climbs to get away from becoming food. John explores what seems to be anapartment he see pictures, sculptures & things he has never known of. As he continues looking near he comes upon what he thinks is a suddenly God.Upon viewing the visage, he has an epiphany that the gods were entirely gentles whose power overwhelmed good judgment. After John returns to his tribe, he s heads of the places sensitive York and Biltmore. His father tells him not to, for some quantify too much truth is a bad thing that it must be told little by little. The flooring ends with John stating his conviction that, once he becomes the head priest, We must build again.By The Waters of BabylonThis short story by Stephen Vincent Benet, is what we call an indicative fiction. It is defined as a sub-genre of science fiction that is touch on with the end of civilization, through nuclear fight, plague, or some other common tragedy and Post-apocalyptic fiction is set in a world or civilization after such a disaster (The Free mental lexicon web rank). Description of the story The story is about a boy called John, who is a son of a priest and he wants to become a priest himself.He and his tripe are seemed to be supporting in ancient times of earth with his Primitive tools and simple kind of weapons. John and his pe ople were living with a kind of Taboos about the forbidden Dead Places ,where no bingle has gone before. John wanted to learn more about the decent Gods and wanted to go on a journey to discover the knowledge he seeks. After 8 days trip, he reached the ruins of the Gods city, he then got the unbelievable truth about what run intoed in the earlier past times. The war between Gods destroyed the earth.Gods were fighting for power plain though they had all the knowledge they needed . John was amazed of what he discovered and how those Gods were scarcely humans as he and his people were. They were Only human with last-ditch uncontrolled powers that caused Armageddon. John was afterward the truth and when he realized what truly happened ,he returned to his father to tell what he saw. Meanings beyond the story The story begins with a high level of Ambiguity that keeps the reader asking, What has really happened? John was intrusive for knowledge and he realized that this is a hard way to go . The language used in the story feel strange on ears with different kinds of enchanted words and magic fever shown in it. The verbal description of the forbidden lands and the legends describing what has happened there, are similar for the destruction made by nuclear bombs on Japan . If we put in mind that this story was for the first time published on 1937, before any kind of evidence on using the atomic bombs in World War 2 on Japan, so it is obvious that Benet had a great vision or timidity of what may happened.Through a spiritual vision, John realized what really happened and even though he believed that knowledge is a great gift that only Gods may have and may give little bit of it to human ,who really worth to know, only when it may also be a deadly weapons if it is not used in a proper ways. The peak of the story was at the point when John visited one of what he called place of Gods and there he saw a dead God, who was returned to be only a human just like him. A dead body of one of the victims. He died watching the civilization dying too.Knowing that the disaster happened on Earth-Our Earth- gives us a sign that it may also happen to us. With all the misused weapons and technology what protects us from being a victim for a great disaster and becoming Dead Gods for upcoming ridiculous foolish civilization? John returned to his land and told his father what he has seen there and that he knew what really happened. He wanted to tell the truth for every one, but his father told him not to tell all the truth at once, it may be lethal. Telling the truth is best little by little.Johns father The Priest and every one like him ,who were in fritter away may tried to hide the truth beyond the magic and spells and forbidden lands to prevent the humanity from making the same mistake and destroy itself, but in my opinion, Knowing the truth of what happened may prevent another disaster. good word This short story is defined as children readings, but it has a sound meaning inside and between lines. I recommend this story for senior children and adults. Its good also in high school literature classes.ReferencesApocalyptic definition. Retrieved opulent 30, 2007, from The free dictionary web site Web site http//encyclopedia. thefreedictionary. com/apocalyptic David Garrett Izzo, Fayetteville State University, North Carolina. Stephen Vincent Benet. The literary Encyclopedia. 17 Feb. 2005. The literary Dictionary Company. 30 August 2007. http//www. litencyc. com/php/speople. php? rec=true&UID=354 Benet, S. By the Waters of Babylon. Retrieved August 30, 2007, Web site