Babylon+OPE+Erika

Erika Flores, Block 9E

Q: Evaluative: Do you think it was a good choice after-all that John pushed forward anyway to go through the forbidden places although they were off limits?

Just Do It!
I think it was a good thing that John kept pushing forward to go to the forbidden places even though they were off limits. At this point in the story, John is on a flat rock, looking for a sign while praying and purifying himself. "There was a white fawn with them-a very great sign... My heart was troubled about going east, yet I knew that I must go." The behavior shown in the quotation proves my thesis, because even though John's village says that the places he is going to are forbidden, that doesn't mean that the Gods of those places also say that John should not go as well. And those signs that John was given came from the Gods, telling him he is allowed to proceed to the Dead Place. It was a good choice for John to go on to the forbidden places; it was no accident that John was given those signs of an Eagle, three deer, and a fawn, for it was the Gods' will for him to go East.