"By the Waters of Babylon" is about a boy in future times who wants to know about the past.

The short story "By the Waters of Babylon" is about a man that tries to find the answers of the past civilization. This story is like our times because we try to find to find our past if we were made by God or if we evolved by apes. "By the Waters of Babylon" has a good setting, rising action, and is full of action, which makes this story good to read.
The setting of the story starts off in a post war period. Everything known to mankind is gone. All that was left from the Great War known to the next generations was that the people before them died off because the gods were not pleased. Thi…