By the Waters of Babylon essays

By the Waters of Babylon essays Steven Vincent Benet, shows all of the different concepts and literary terms in this story. Some of the concepts and terms he uses are: Sequence, the order events happened in the story to make the ending good; Conflict, amongst John with outside forces; Rites of Passage, John has to be a man and leave fast. Theme, the changes and ways characters look at thing, which John and his father thought gods were east but they were really people and they were all dead. In order to show that Johns a man he travels east where it is forbidden. This is where people say the gods are. He first started going on trips with his dad, who is a priest, and who is not afraid of anything. He asks his dad if he can leave, and he starts traveling east. He walks back west to where he lives, and talks to his father. He tells him that the Gods were really people and they all were dead. He also told his father, that he did not know why they were all dead. His dad says to tell the town what his experience, but slowly enough so they can understand. On his way east, John encounters many Barriers that make it hard for him to travel. First, he meats a panther that is eating a fawn and the panther sees him and charges John, so, John shoots him in the eye. Second, he has to build a raft, to cross the Great River. He just hopes he will not be taken out into the land of the legends. Third, he woke up and saw a wolf lying there, and more wolves came and tried to kill him, but he ran into a house and shut the door. After all, of John's obstacles he finally gets to the forbidden land, and the land of the gods, New York. Everyone is dead, because of the destructive technology, which John does not know about. He finally realizes that the gods are actually human beings just like him. In conclusion, John traveled east to find out that the gods were actually humans and they were all dead. But in order to get there he had to be a man and ...