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Connie Hur, Block 9F

Question: What was the motivation of John for the journey even though it was off-limits?

Title: Desire for the Unknown

**John sets out on his journey to the Dead place even when off-limits because of his curiosity and want for more knowledge of the unknown place.** By the time John had to go back to his home, he could just not resist his curiosity and urge to learn more about the Dead place and Gods. “All through the night, I knew that I should have to cross the river and walk in the places of the gods,” John wanted to know who these Dead Gods were, how they lived, the structure, culture and everything. Before he took his big step, John said, “there was a fire in my bowels, a fire in my mind,” his desire for more knowledge was so extreme that even though he knew the city of Gods was dangerously off-limits and was breaking the rules of his tribe even when he was a Priests son, John eventually went down the river to discover the new world. His curiosity won over the rules nobody had ever broken in his tribe for many years. As an result, John is able to learn that the “Gods” the tribes in his area use to think were actually men. “They were men—they went a dark road, but they were men.” This way, John got to understand many historical information about men and he also gets a new brave idea. “We must build again,” an idea of developing and growing into a new society as did before.