Passage+of+the+Red+Sea

More Like Dead Sea The Hebrews are slaves to the Egyptians for a brief period of time. They escape into the wilderness outside of Egypt with Moses as their leader. When the King of Egypt hears that they had fled, he decides to pursue them. He forms an army of 600 chariots to catch the Hebrews. The Hebrews panick as they saw the Egyptians approaching, but Moses tells them to stand firm and wait for the salvation of the Lord. God tells Moses to go forward and to lift his staff, and the sea will part for him, so they can make an escape through a dry passage.
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The waters form walls to the right and left, and Moses and the Hebrews go through the passage of dry land as the Egyptians follow. Once they make it to the other side, Moses waves his hand, and the sea closes in on the Egyptians,crushes their chariots, and destroys them. This convinces more people to believe in the power of the lord.


 * This story shows the consequences of taking malevolent actions, depicted in this story as slavery, and that sometimes those who seem that they have power, such as the Egyptians, can be bested by what may seem like the weakest of people.

Allusions relating to The Passage of the Red Sea usually have to do with a Moses. That "Moses" could be seen as a great leader, savior, or someone who guides a group of people towards a destination since that is what Moses did to the Hebrews when he lead them away from the Egyptians. The parting of the Red Sea can also be alluded to as the opening of a new path or the ability to go to a new destination.
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 * ** Movies ** || * "Ethan Frome"- directed by John Madden
 * "Bruce Almighty"- directed by Tom Shadyak ||
 * ** Literature ** || * "Secret Water"- Arthur Ransome
 * "Uncle Tom's Cabin"- Harriet Beecher Stowe
 * "The Sirens of Titan"- Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ||
 * ** Poem ** || * "Won't they ever learn?"- Christian Ratnam ||

Won't They Ever Learn? Christian Ratnam I wonder if I’ll ever see, That great wheel beneath the sea, That wooden relic of old time, That is to great men, a simple sign. I wonder if I’ll ever hear, Snobbish voices, cruel cheer, Insolence of the highest degree, Mockery of that divine decree.

I wonder of the human heart, If it’ll ever learn its part, Its wickedness and pride, And that God controls the tide.

I wonder if the great king wondered, How his army was defeated, Generations of kings still wonder, Every time God ends human plunder

//<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Bruce Almighty //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">. Dir. Tom Shadyac. 2003.

//<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Ethan Frome //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">. Dir. John Madden. By Richard Nelson. Prod. Stan Wlodkowski. Perf. Liam Neeson and Patricia Arquette. Miramax Films, 1993.

//<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Exodus //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">. //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">. New York: World, 1962. Print.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Ransome, Arthur. //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Secret Water //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">. Boston: D.R. Godine, 1995. Print.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Ratnam, Christian. "Won't They Ever Learn?" // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Poem Hunter //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2013.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Stowe, Harriet Beecher. //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Uncle Tom's Cabin, Or, Life among the Lowly ; The Minister's Wooing ; Oldtown Folks //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, 1982. 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.