Summary Of Jumping Mouse And By The Waters Of Babylon

The Story of Jumping Mouse, and By the Waters of Babylon, both have the same mythical structure, because of the journey that both Jumping Mouse goes through, and also the journey that John goes through. Both stories have the exact same meaning, just described differently. This shows the many different ways that one thing can be deciphered. In The Story of Jumping Mouse, and By the Waters of Babylon they both share similarities in the mythical structure of the story. Both, Jumping Mouse and John were called upon to go on a journey, to later on reveal the main truth about both stories. To add, Jumping Mouse and John meet mentors, their mentors then put them through a “test”, such as, Jumping Mouse had to bypass his fears of losing something
so valuable and give it up to someone that needed it more than he did. Also, they both are “rebirthed”, for example, John in By the Waters of Babylon is reborn when he comes in contact with the dead “God” on the seat looking out into the kingdom, he realizes that they were all just people, ruined by the advances (technology) that they had, and in that moment he takes it upon himself, to prevent this with his tribe. Furthermore, both are resurrected, in The Story of Jumping Mouse, after Jumping Mouse has lost something so valuable, he has grown as a whole into someone so much better than what he was before, and it is now time that he is rewarded, now he sees the world differently. The Story of Jumping Mouse and, By the Water of Babylon is found through many different versions. All together both of these stories show the same meaning at the structural level, Jumping Mouse and John both go through a journey in order to mature and find out the truth. Once they both mature as a whole, they have then completed their journey and can then accept whatever their mentor will say or bring to them. They can do this because of the precautions given to them. To conclude, both The Story of Jumping Mouse and, By the Waters of Babylon are both essentially similar. They show the same journey that one has to make in order to mature as a whole. Both stories show that you have to overcome a stage to reach the highpoint in ones life.