"By the Waters of Babylon" is a post-apocalyptic short story written by American writer Stephen Vincent Benet. It was published in The Saturday Evening Post on July 31, 1937, as "The Place of the Gods."
Correct option is D.
"I tried to guide my raft with the pole but it spun around."
The metal that the priests of John's tribe gather from the Dead Places symbolizes both the tribe's developing understanding of technology and its reliance on superstitions. At the end of the story, the author Benet hints at the location of the future civilization.
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The answer is the first one
“For many reasons, humans did not notice they were being watched”
states the central idea of the first paragraph. The correct
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