Parable Of Despair By Octavia Butler
Thomas Sweeny–Wong
Period 5
Parable of Despair
The world is dying.
There is too much injustice.
We need to fix it. ––Thomas Sweeny–Wong
The future is tough to predict. Parable of the Sower is a very well–written science fiction novel by Octavia Butler. The setting is California in the year 2025. The world is not prosperous anymore and has turned into a poverty stricken place. There are countless homeless people, jobs are scarce, and there are very few communities of homes. The few communities that are still occupied have huge walls with barbed wire and laser wire surrounding them. There are robberies, murders, and rapes just about every day. People walk the streets naked and bloody because their clothes were stolen or they could never find any. Some people live in the hills like animals. They kill anything that comes along, human or not, for food and to protect their territory. Some of these people are drug addicts who create fires for their own satisfaction. Everyone who has a chance to live must carry a gun so no one can harm or try to do anything to them. In this society the police do not help because you have to pay them to come to the scene of a crime. Most people cannot afford to pay their fees so they handle whatever they can on their own. The protagonist of this story, Lauren, decides to leave this society for something better an forms a spiritual group called "Earthseed." The word "earthseed" is actually a metaphor.
The dominant metaphor of the
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