How shall I tell what I saw? I went carefully, my strung bow in my hand, my skin ready for danger. There should have been the wailings of spirits and the shrieks of demons, but there were not. It was very silent and sunny where I had landed-the wind and the rain and the birds that drop seeds had done their work-the grass grew in the cracks of the broken stone. It is a fair island-no wonder the gods built there. If I had come there, a god, I also would have built. - "By the Waters of Babylon," Stephen Vincent Benét What textual evidence supports the analysis that the setting develops the character's bravery?

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Keagan Armstrong

17 July, 14:03

How shall I tell what I saw? I went carefully, my strung bow in my hand, my skin ready for danger. There should have been the wailings of spirits and the shrieks of demons, but there were not. It was very silent and sunny where I had landed-the wind and the rain and the birds that drop seeds had done their work-the grass grew in the cracks of the broken stone. It is a fair island-no wonder the gods built there. If I had come there, a god, I also would have built. - "By the Waters of Babylon," Stephen Vincent Benét What textual evidence supports the analysis that the setting develops the character's bravery?

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Nicholas Richards · Answer 1

"my strung bow in my hand, my skin ready for danger."

"There should have been the wailings of spirits and the shrieks of demons, but there were not."

" If I had come there, a god, I also would have built."

Explanation:

These quotes all show the urgency that he is feeling in this moment, and the fact that he is ready to go into battle. he is not at all afraid and he is ready to face this head on!