Anthropology: Poem Analysis

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EXT. CHURCH of SCIENTOLOGY (GOLD BASE, Ca) - NightThe car stops, Florentina, Sage, and Shane get out of the car, waiting in front of a big sanctuary, in the middle of a desert, outside Los Angeles.FLORENTINAThis is the place.Shane is nervous and turns white.SHANEWhat if I just walk away?FLORENTINAThis goes beyond the rent money you owe me back at the apartments. Nothing personal, but our lives are in danger, and if you walk away, you won't see another day alive.SHANEWhat if this is all a mistake?FLORENTINAI'll give you one piece of advice, be real, he knows almost everything that you can imagine.SAGENo more questions.SAGE points a gun at SHANE.SAGEI don't want to have to use this on your pretty face, so go Mr. savior before we all are dead.INT. …show more content…
Torches are everywhere to light the night sky. In a distance are nepheliums, giant human reptilian hybrids who look like humans, but have the reptilian strength. They are helping men build the pyramids.Daniel, age 25, an Egyptian slave, finds his way away wandering away from the rest of the slaves. He slowly hides himself behind multiple columns, and follows one of the nepheliums walking right past him, and into a dark cave.EGYPTIAN Guardsmen(in Archaic Egyptian, with subtitles)Work, work, work, faster!The sounds of guardsmen whipping slaves, slaves breathing hard and screaming in pain.Daniel hides behind a statue, and sees the nephelium giants going into a portal. He runs with a clear path in front of him, and makes it into the portal before guardsmen can stop him.GuardsmanStop!EXT. OSAKA - Garden of Ether - DayDaniel rolls down a hill before coming to a halt at a fig tree. He quickly gets up, and hides behind the fig tree as he sees the Cherubim legion, two angelic beings, guarding the tree of life.The Cherubim legion are distracted by the nephelium giants running across them. Daniel decides to approaches the glowing fruit off from the Tree of Life, and takes a bite and swallows

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