Babylon Essay

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Directions) This is an in class essay. Please respond to one of the following essay prompts regarding the story, “By the Waters of Babylon,” by Stephen Vincent Benet. First brainstorm ideas, group your ideas into paragraphs, go back into the story and find examples to back up your ideas and write a rough draft of the essay. Finally, rewrite the rough draft editing for grammatical errors, run-on sentences and misspelled words. . Your essay should have a well-developed introduction, which includes a thesis statement, at least 3 body paragraphs and a conclusion. Place in the Haiku dropbox by end of class period. Prompt) In an essay, explain what John’s father meant by the quote, “Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth. It was not idly that our forefathers forbade the Dead Places.” Other than the radiation, why else might the Dead Places be dangerous? Describe what the truth about the “gods” might do to John’s people? Also, describe how the knowledge in the dead places might change their lives in either a positive or negative way. In the end of the book “By the Waters of Babylon” by Stephen Vincent Benét John, the priest’s son has finished his journey and gone to the forbidden places. He tells his father that he deserves to dye. His Dad doesn’t think so. He wants his son to tell him about the journey. His son, John, tells about the dead places he visited, the dogs he encountered, and finally about how he realized the gods were just human, no more, no less. Than his father gave him this quote, “Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth. It was not idly that our forefathers forbade the Dead Places.” This quote tell us that the priest has known this but doesn’t want the people to know, and I’m here to tell you why. The

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