The+Great+Flood

=The Great Flood=

==__**Summary:**__ God looked down on the Earth and decided that he did not like how evil the world had turned, so he decided to flood the Earth. The flood would kill all living beings except for a holy man named Noah and his family, and a male and female of every other species on Earth. Noah was told to build an ark (boat) and load his family and the other living things on to it in order to save themselves. It rained for 40 days and 40 nights and after God saw the effect the flood had on the Earth, he felt bad and made a covenant with Noah that he would never do it again and that all living beings should have a chance to live with the choice of how to live.==
 * __Themes:__** Destruction, Regret, Faith
 * __Symbols:__** Raven, dove, rainbow, olive leaf, closing the door on Noah

Discussion Questions:

 * 1) ==Which do you thin is stronger in the story of Noah: its warning to the human race, or its reassurance? Explain.==
 * 2) ==The flood gives the human race a new beginning. How do the instructions God gives to Noah after the flood compare with the instructions he gave to Adam and Eve? What details are repeated? What are people now permitted to eat? What is to be their relation to other creatures?==
 * 3) ==Why did God chose Noah instead of another person?==
 * 4) ==What do you think is the most important theme?==

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Noah's prayer is a prayer that Noah may have said to God in a desperate time of need while on the ark. In the poem, he repeats the like "the days are long, Lord" multiple times and when talking about the major symbols, he calls the "twig of hope" etc. Noah also refers to land as the covenant he made with God.======

//Noah://
Noah is a poem written as a brief and loose summary of the story of The Great Flood. It is based on an outside perspective and changes the birds to pigeons and at the end of the poem, it says "save there is a promise to cling to when the floods rise." This should imply the ending of the story.

Study Guide/Quiz Questions:

 * 1) Why was it important for Noah to have complete faith in God?
 * 2) What does the dove symbolize? Why did it come back but the raven did not?
 * 3) How did God feel when he looked on the Earth after the flood?
 * 4) What does God say the punishment will be if a human sheds another human's blood?
 * 5) What is God's reasoning for creating the flood in the first place?
 * 6) What does the rainbow symbolize and when does it come into the story?