Genesis Parody  

The Stowaway was a very interesting article it gave a unique outlook on the tale of the Noah’s ark, it is told from a point of view of an outspoken woodworm, that sneaks into the ship, the story definitely defies the traditional telling of the classic flood story. What I thought while reading this article was here we go another story about Noah, however Noah is portrayed very different from the Noah stories in Genesis. In his rewritten story noah has 4 kids different from the story in Genesis where he had 3 kids.

This parody of Genesis, the author dissembles the original story of Genesis, the ark was boat a ship but a whole flotilla,also was Noah a good man?No he was not. Furthermore the calm and logical approach of the narrator makes the story believable, to an extent that the person reading does not question the credibility of the story. Think about it even before we readers find out who the narrator is, it is obvious that he exists outside the course of events and so there it appears to be no reason for his depiction of what is happening to be unbiased.

One thing pointed out by the New York Times review article I read was that we could readily assume that Barnes chose a woodworm as a narrator of the story because he wanted to show how easily we are manipulated into believing that something is objective. To further extend this what the person from the New York Times was trying is we tend to forget that history is a story being told, there is always some perspective and it’s always someone’s recollection of how a certain event had happened.