Summary Of By The Waters Of Babylon

The main character in the story “By the waters of Babylon” is John, a boy who can be look at as a very mature. He notices on his little journey that the land he is in is now in ruins, but even though everything was destroyed he feels that the society can be built up once again if they take everything in a slow pace. As a new priest he takes his people and wants to make a new beginning he wants to have they same knowledge that we had before we died. John wants to build a new broken city back into a working city all over again.

The theme of this story is there will always be a price for knowledge. To become a priest John went on this journey. He goes through a place that they named “Place of the Gods”, but as he keeps going he finds out that the people that they all thought was Gods were just regular people who's community got destroyed. John dad told him “if you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth”. John dad is trying to tell his son that he should take everything that he gatherd on his journey slowly and take his take time on what he learned. The story finishes off with the son deciding that once he becomes priest his people have to go back to the dead places and rebuild with the old knowledge.

The Plot of the story starts off with John, destined to be a priest has to go on a journey to the Place of the Gods and learn.
John finds himself needing to hide from the Forest People who are trying to hunt him down, and finally his last conflict is when he has to think about what he should do with this new knowledge and gain and how he should tell his village even though the place of the Gods is