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By the Waters of Babylon

Post - apocalyptic Fiction is : 1. a type of science fiction 2. the story is set in a world or civilization after a great disaster (apocalypse) 3. Story takes place in a primitive, non-technological society 4. This kind of story is similar to a dystopia in some ways. By the Waters of Babylon.

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By the Waters of Babylon

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  1. Post - apocalyptic Fiction is: 1. a type of science fiction 2. the story is set in a world or civilization after a great disaster (apocalypse) 3. Story takes place in a primitive, non-technological society 4. This kind of story is similar to a dystopia in some ways. By the Waters of Babylon

  2. Apocalypse – universal or widespread destruction Post-apocalyptic – taking place after the universal destruction

  3. What movies, books, or TV shows have you seen that are considered post apocalyptic? Why did you choose to see them?

  4. Vocabulary • boasted: to speak of or assert with excessive pride • fasting: to abstain from food • perplexed: filled with uncertainty • purification: the act or instance of purifying or making pure • spite: petty ill will or hatred with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart

  5. Themes “Right of Passage” A dangerous challenge must be attempted and if successful, they were respected by elders. “Downfall of Society” when technology grows faster than we can control it – a warning to learn from history “Spirit Walk” Where boys become men IF they survive -these days we have getting a driver’s license or getting a first real job.

  6. Biblical Allusion Allusion- reference to something in a story that the author assumes most readers will already know The title "By the Waters of Babylon" is an allusion to Psalm 137 of the Bible, which begins "By the Waters of Babylon I sat down and wept.“ The Israelites lost their "promised land" of Israel from which they have been exiled. Their homeland was destroyed and its people scattered. The message of the short story’s allusion: the eventual threat of self-destruction if we are unable to curb our thirst for knowledge - and not "eat it too fast."

  7. First-person Narrator John:coming into manhood and must complete a dangerous right of passage before he is accepted by his father and the elders.

  8. Setting: New York City in the future after global warfare has destroyed it and civilization as we know it, the vast majority of technology has been lost and most people are dead (written 8 years before the first atom bomb)

  9. Conflict-Man vs. himself John must face his fears by visiting the Place of the Gods Man vs. Nature – John is put in situations where he must survive against nature itself ? Man vs Man – Will John question what he cannot understand about other men’s laws? ?

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