Rebirth and new beginnings

The stories that we read from Genesis are pretty classic stories, especially of the flood.  God offers help and guidance and instruction for Noah who is the hero. Because his faith is so strong, he is chosen to build the arc and get the animals and survive the flood and help repopulate the earth. The flood acts as the apocalypse, and wipes out all the evil on earth.  The reason we are able to connect to this story is because it is like having a clean slate and starting over or moving to a new place and that is exciting and has appeal when things in life are not going the way that we want them to.