By The Waters Of Babylon By John Benet Analysis

Can a society, better yet, a world, successfully survive and overall thrive where freedom and individually cease to exist? In this Futuristic American, society forces the people of the world to require personal sacrifice, therefore causing the individual desires that every human experiences, willing or not, to be outweighed with those of society, in order to maintain overall order and control. And so ultimately it is wondered as to how long a society can successfully function within this process? Will it be successful for as long as it exist? Will it not succeed to any extent? Or will it be successful till the day a human(s) will desire more and therefore take action to have the freedom and individuality that they feel as if they deserve? And
In this piece of writing, it is discovered in the beginning that after the “Great Burning” had occurred, countless cities were destroyed, causing civilization as a whole to start over, therefore forcing an environmental change, that soon led to people creating new laws. These new laws including priests that were of high status. As so the main character, a boy named John, is the son of a priest. And as the son of a priest, John and his father have to go to the locations known as “Dead Places” to collect metal. It is forbidden to go to any of the Dead Places except to search for metal and then he who touches the metal must be a priest or the son of a priest (par 2). It is also forbidden for anyone to go East, towards the place of the Gods. When the time comes for John to take his spiritual journey, he asked his father, and after agreement, he travels east. Despite it being forbidden to travel east, something inside of John keeps telling him to go. As John comes across the Place of the Gods, which has been known to be forbidden and trespassing will result in death, he finds himself willing to sacrifice his life to gain the knowledge that he has a burning desire for. While at the Place of the Gods, John discovered that the gods that his people had been worshiping since the beginning of time were not gods at all, they were just merely men. When John returns home, he comes to the decision to sacrifices his relationship with his father by telling him about all the things he discovered, including that the gods were just men. In the end, John plans to take the people of his tribe to the Place of the Gods after he becomes Chief Priest to rebuild it once again. And so it is learned that personal