well it says here in the exerpt that they bursted out in to laughter showing they thought that was a joke.
Answer:
True
Explanation:
"She is like a leopard which gives birth"
When John enters the Place of the Gods, he starts to assimilate that all that he was told about the Place of the Gods is not true at all. The Place of the Gods he visits can be seen as a post-apocaliptic version of the city of New York; because of that, the author is placing the reader in a possible future of ourselves. The portrait of New York as a post-apocaliptic city that we must encourage to build again (by the words of John) can be related to the fall of the city (kingdom) of Babylon in the ancient Mesopotamia.
Its to teach a lesson or something that can be learned through the story
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