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rusak2 [61]
3 years ago
15

Describe the plot of “By the Waters of Babylon” by using the drop-down menus to complete the statements.

English
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Evgesh-ka [11]3 years ago
8 0

"By the Waters of Babylon" is a short story written by Stephen Vincent Benet and it was published in 1937. This story is about an post-apocalyptic world in which a man, John, struggles to find the "Place of the Gods", following the beliefs and customs of his people, the hill people. John, and his people, believe that dead people are truly gods. Many are the adventures faced by this character as he undertakes what his father used to believe was a spiritual pathway, but that in truth was a journey to find the forbidden place.

1. This story is about a young character, John, who must face the destroyed industrial world and the difficulties of C: a post apocalyptic environment.

2. The rising action, which is the events that lead to the climax in a story, are a series of conflicts that the narrator, John, faces when he: C: travels to the Place of the Gods, which was John´s true goal.

3. The climax of the story, which is the highest point of the action, where all the attention if going to focus as the central issue, is when John realizes that in truth, those whom he and his people believed were gods, were in truth humans who were once overcome by their own sense of power. Correct answer here then is B: the gods were people.

4. The resolution of the story, the point at which all conflicts are resolved and explained, occurs when John returns to his people, the Hill People and, convinced by his father, that telling people the truth might be harmful, decides to state that : B: they must rebuild society slowly and carefully.

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