Essays on Parable of The Sower
Parable of the Sower, by Octavia E. Butler, conveys many similar topics from history, such as slavery, not having equal rights, and the decrease of civilization, which is what makes it difficult to put the book under one genre classification. Regardless, Butler is able to fit the literature of dystopia into her book. Many different...
To introduce a world where chaos upholds environmental and social disasters, Octavia Butler’s novel Parable of the Sower introduces protagonist Lauren Olamina who is caught between the realities of her society and the impacts it has on the way she lives. Her neighborhood, as she describes it, is a walled community that protects its members...
In a destructive post-apocalyptic world, the book, the Parable of the Sower, tells the story of a teenage girl with hyperempathy syndrome named Lauren Olamina and her life growing up in a gated community in southern California called Robledo. Throughout the whole plot of the novel, the author, Octavia Butler, creates an intricate narrative revolving...