#14

14. On page 38, Beatty tells Mrs. Riley, “You know the law….Where’s your common sense? None of those books agree with each other…. You’ve been locked up here for years with a regular damned Tower of Babel….The people in those books never lived.” What are the implications of the allusion to the Tower of Babel? (Use a computer to run a Google search on Tower of Babel if you need to.)

The Tower of Babel was a tower built by Noah's descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven. God punished them by confusing their languages so no one could understand one another. Beatty is always saying how literature is useless but he can't stop referring to books such as when speaking to Mrs.Riley.

Sergio Flores. AP Per 4