Describe the plot of “by the waters of babylon” by using the drop-down menus to complete the statements.

the story is about a young character dealing with the difficulties of

jealous brothers
the loss of his parents
a post apocalyptic environment

the rising action is a series of conflicts that the narrator faces when he

travels to the dead place
travels to find metal on his own
travels to the place of the gods

the climax of the story is when the narrator is in the apartment and realizes

the dogs could kill him
the gods were people
the magic no longer works

the resolution of the story occurs when the narrator returns to the hill people and

to never return to the place of the gods
to rebuild society slowly and carfully
to tell everyone that the gods do not exist

"By the Waters of Babylon" is a short story written by Stephen Vincent Benet and it was published in 1937. This story is about an post-apocalyptic world in which a man, John, struggles to find the "Place of the Gods", following the beliefs and customs of his people, the hill people. John, and his people, believe that dead people are truly gods. Many are the adventures faced by this character as he undertakes what his father used to believe was a spiritual pathway, but that in truth was a journey to find the forbidden place.

1. This story is about a young character, John, who must face the destroyed industrial world and the difficulties of C: a post apocalyptic environment.

2. The rising action, which is the events that lead to the climax in a story, are a series of conflicts that the narrator, John, faces when he: C: travels to the Place of the Gods, which was John´s true goal.

3. The climax of the story, which is the highest point of the action, where all the attention if going to focus as the central issue, is when John realizes that in truth, those whom he and his people believed were gods, were in truth humans who were once overcome by their own sense of power. Correct answer here then is B: the gods were people.

4. The resolution of the story, the point at which all conflicts are resolved and explained, occurs when John returns to his people, the Hill People and, convinced by his father, that telling people the truth might be harmful, decides to state that : B: they must rebuild society slowly and carefully.

answer: sure

explanation: i'd love to know everything but that burden is too much to bare.

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