In the fictional piece the climax involves John 's detection of the dead god in his visions. John’s apparition of the gods and their lives before the "Great Burning" transformed his perspective in that this “god” he had visioned of was only a man and that despite John’s doubts, this city was once a city of men like the civilization he is included in. John 's discovery of the "god" and his culmination that he was a man like himself symbolizes the end of John 's quest for knowledge and his insight as a character, proving his stand as an individual and that of his people. The knowledge received from the vision aided John’s interpretation of information and that these gods he strived to know were only men of overpowered technology, and that