The story is about a young character dealing with the difficulties of: a postapocalyptic environment.
The rising action is a series of conflicts that the narrator faces when he: travels to find Place of the Gods.
The climax of the story is when the narrator is in the apartment and realizes that: the gods were people.
The resolution of the story occurs when the narrator returns to the Hill People and decides: to rebuild society, slowly, and carefully.
That's the plot of the short story "By the Waters of Babylon". John, the main character, lives in a postapocalyptic world. He's the son of a priest and has dreams about the Place of the Gods, which is revealed to be New York. John gets his father's permission to travel to the Place of the Gods, where he realizes the beings they believed to be Gods were actually men, whose technology was used to bring their own destruction.
