After reading the short story "By the Waters of Babylon," we can say that the statement which best summarizes the conflict resolution is the following:
B. The narrator breaks the law, and overcomes natural obstacles and his own fear to gain knowledge to rebuild society.
What happens in the story?
- The main character and narrator is John. He is a priest who lives in a post-apocalyptic society. As a priest, John is allowed to touch metal. He can survive its touch, while ordinary people cannot - or at least, that is what they believe.
- John decides to leave his people and go on a journey, even though he knows that journey means breaking their laws. He will enter the Place of the Gods, a strange and abandoned collection of buildings and streets.
- John has to overcome several natural obstacles to reach that place. When he does, he has a revelation. The Place of the Gods used to be just a city. The gods were people, like John himself.
- John figures out what happened to those people: They were destroyed by their own inventions. Technology killed them. That is why the people who are now alive, like John's people, are afraid of metal and think it is cursed.
- With that knowledge, John returns home. He can now help rebuild society.
With the information above in mind, we can choose letter B as the best summary of the conflict resolution.
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