RETHINKING THE

TOWER OF BABEL
LESSON 11: SHORT STORY
Tower of Babel

•Genesis 11: 8-9

The Lord confused the
language.
 CENTURY
• Oxford English Dictionary defines:
• A period of one hundred years. It is
popularly calculated as beginning of
the year that ends with “00” and as a
final year of a century.
• Century which is at once a tradition
system of counting years, but on the
other, a procedure of relating and
making sense with a particular length
of time.
VIEW
World Literature
• World – as a huge as the geographic entity
itself
- people and things that exist, human
society
Literature- written works; that provide
information about something.
A DIET OF IDENTITY
• TASTE
• A pleasant or unpleasant sensation
triggered by the nerves in our tongue.
• Also social and cultural
• Taste in human experience is seen in our
vocabulary.
MARKERS
• PARABLE
-is an allegorical or representative tale where
characters are meant to represent something else
• PLOT
- is the manner in which the story is arranged
• CONFLICT
- is central to the plotting
•TURNING POINT
- indicates the resolution of the conflict
•WESTERN CANON
- is a list of literary texts deemed by
scholars and writers as “classical”
•WORLDVIEW
- is a way of comprehending reality.