The+Tower+of+Babel

It All Came Tumbling Down **Background Story:** There is one language with few words on the earth. The people propose that they shall not scatter themselves, but instead build a magnificent city. They plan on creating a tower made of brick with its tops in the heavens. When God notices that they are cooperating so well, he decides that there is nothing that couldn't do together. He then decides to scatter the people all across the land and give the different languages to create confusion among each other. The tower is named Babel since there is too much confusion to continue its building.


 * This story can be used to describe how impossible it is to cooperate and work together with other people since everyone is different. God bringing everyone apart can be interpreted as what would normally happen in society.

Any type of allusions relating to the story of the Tower of Babel usually talk about the confusion and oblivion that occurred after God mixed their languages and scattered the people across the world. It could mean that a group of people are facing the problem of confusion just as those in the story did. A "Tower of Babel"could be an area with many mixed languages and cultures.
 * Allusions: **


 * ** Literature ** || * "The Sirens of Titan"- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
 * "The Invisible Man"- H. G. Wells
 * "Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow"- Peter Hoeg
 * "Fahrenheit 451"- Ray Bradbury
 * "The Dogs of Babel"- Carolyn Parkhurst ||
 * ** Poem ** || * "Modern Babel"- Mathew Binu ||

In this book, a fireman captain Beatty tells one of his coworkers, Guy Montag, that the books that he has been reading are a "Tower of Babel", and that they do not agree with each other. Montag is in a society in which the punishment for reading or owning books is great, and he has just been caught. Beatty is telling him that the books are a "Tower of Babel" because they do not all present the same idea, and each book is different, just how god makes each person different when displeased by the tower.
 * Fahrenheit 451- **

Binu, Mathew. "Modern Babel" //Poem Hunter //. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Nov. 2013.

Bradbury, Ray. //Fahrenheit 451 //. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1967. Print.

Geary, Rick, and H. G. Wells. //The Invisible Man //. New York [N.Y.: Papercutz, 2008. Print.

//Genesis //. //The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version //. New York: World, 1962. Print.

Høeg, Peter. //Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow //. London: Harvill, 1993. Print.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Parkhurst, Carolyn. //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">The Dogs of Babel //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">. Boston: Little, Brown, 2003. Print.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Vonnegut, Kurt. //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">The Sirens of Titan //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">. New York, NY: Delta Trade Paperbacks, 1998. Print.