By The Waters of Babylon by Stephen Vincent Benet

BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON

( outstanding Depression Times Feelings)

¬-Nothing of course will ever matter the place of the gray

fashioned liking of a work of dodge or not liking it-

(Henry James)

If you find some clues al more or less the future, By the Water of Babylon can help you.

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Story shows us the feelings of the 1930s people. It was written in response to the bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil contend. Benet used his art to tell parables about the tumultuous events of his time that included the Great Depression.

After the First World War, starting the Second World War and horrors of the death camps, holocausts in the cities shocked everyone. So the thoughts of Benet create a futuristic world in his mind as in the story.

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John and his tribe were the survivors after an apocalyptic war: Without knowing about the past and technology that we use now. It is forbidden to go to the eastern hemisphere; Dead billets except to search for metal, and who touches the metal must be a priest or the news of a priest. The most knowledgeable people are the priests. They can read the old writings and can heal the ill ones.



John is son of a priest and he must go to the Place of Gods himself to become a real priest. This story is focused on this journey.

Journey is to New York, where is called the Place of Gods. He must overcome his fears and go to city. John waited for a sign to set out, and then he saw an eagle flying east. This is the alert to take the runner step. When he came to the Dead Place he saw the river which is utterly forbidden about crossing it:...

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