By The Waters Of Babylon

By the irrigate of Babylon is about a son of a priest & becoming priest by the name of bum who goes on a quest to find himself & show he is meet to become a priest. Just as in the movie The Village there are proscribe places enter into. Its prohibit to go to any of the dead(p) places except to search for metal & he who touches the metal must be a priest or son of a priest or they will die. sterns father takes him on a pilgrimage to search for metal & it is hardly after John touches the metal does his father see 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 specializes him to look into the fire and to say what he sees in his dreams. John sees a river, and, beyond it, a owing(p) Dead Place and in it the gods walking. His father calls this a strong dream that whitethorn eat you up. He then makes his son promise not to travel to the east and cross the great river to visit th e Place of the gods for these places are forbid to enter. His father sends him off on a spiritual excursion, further 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 gets to the Place of the Gods, he travel on the ground & he does not burn. Instead he only come ups energy and magic. As he travels through the place of the Gods in search of food he sees a statue of what seems to be a God that says ASHING on its base. While being chased by dogs and finds a building with stories he climbs to get outside(a) from becoming food. John explores what seems to be anapartment he see pictures, sculptures & things he has never known of. As he continues looking around he comes upon what he thinks is a dead God.Upon viewing the visage, he has an epiphany that the gods were only if humans whose major power overwhelmed good judgment. After John returns to his tribe, he speaks of the places New York and Biltmore. His father tells him not to, for sometimes too much equity is a bad thing that it must be told little by little. The composition ends with John stating his conviction that, once he becomes the head priest, We must build again.By The Waters of BabylonThis short bilgewater by Stephen Vincent Benet, is what we call an Apocalyptic fiction. It is defined as a sub-genre of apprehension fiction that is concerned with the end of politeness, through nuclear war, plague, or some other general accident and Post-apocalyptic fiction is set in a world or civilization after such a disaster (The Free Dictionary website). 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 living in ancient times of earth with his Primitive tools and simple kind of weapons. John and his mass were living with a k ind of Taboos about the forbidden Dead Places ,where no adept has gone before. John wanted to learn more about the Mighty 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 undreamt truth about what happened in the earlier past times. The war between Gods destroyed the earth.Gods were fighting for power even though they had all the knowledge they needed . John was amazed of what he discovered and how those Gods were near humans as he and his people were. They were Only human with ultimate uncontrolled powers that caused Armageddon. John was later the truth and when he realized what genuinely 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 searching 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 description of the forbidden lands and the legends describing what has happened there, are similar for the destruction made by atomic bombs on Japan . If we put in mind that this story was first 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 fear 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 feature and may give little bit of it to human ,who really worth to know, but it may similarly 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 civilizati on dying too.Knowing that the disaster happened on Earth-Our Earth- gives us a sign that it may withal 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 poor 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 charge 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. Recommendation This short story is defined as children readings, but it has a deep meaning inside and between lines. I recommend this story for elder children and adults. Its good also in high school literature classes.ReferencesApocalyptic definition. Retrieved direful 30, 2007, from The free dictionary web site weave 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