The list of names and their ages was odd.

For this reading response I would like to make some connections with other literature I have read or saw. Well, the first book it came up to my mind was Ishmael. I remember Daniel Quinn made some references with the story of Adams and Eve, and the sons of them. Now that I know who they are and what their role is, I understand what Ishmael was talking about better. So, Adams and Eve are more or less the parents of the human race. And the sons are our ancestors. Cain, the agriculturist, sounds more a like to us.

The story of Noah and his boat is so famous that many authors incorporate it now-a-days into their stories. In one of the Japanese anime, it used it as an analogy to say that the world is unfair. One of the characters who were a homosexual said that only couples of man and woman had the right to go on to the Noah’s boat and people like him couldn’t go. He said that the world is unfair just like that. As you can see in Genesis chapter 7 verse 2, “Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.” Which I think it’s a unique way of looking at the story of Noah. Well, it is not exactly unfair that only couples can go in because there is a reason to it, the purpose to be able to breed. But it is surely not equal, when talking about rights. Oh well, I enjoy unique thinking. Talking about unfairness, one of the ways to control people is by fear. In this case, the fear of being punished for the community you live. People will peer pressure the ones that will cause the punishment, and in that way, there will be organization in the society.