Comparing Butler's Pullman Place And KSF

In an interview with Butler in 1999,she explains why she wrote about a company like KSF. She is speculating what might happen if poor minorities and immigrants in the United States continue to be pushed to the margins of society. “I wrote the way I did about education in the two novels because I kept hearing or reading such contempt for public education, and at the same time such enthusiasm for the building and filling of more and more prisons”. America itself is becoming a company town, Americans are living off of borrowed more in the form of loans and credit cards. The lenders of these loans and credit cards take what Americans own such as their cars, houses, or anything that holds great value. Like in the book the the debts that the parents have is passed on to the children. Starting in the 1990s the effect of credit started to hit the American people. Houses,retirement, and business were lost to the company store. The company store meaning the government, like in KSF the workers had to pay back KSF but if they couldnt human rights were taken, With the American borrowing the interest rates for the money we borrow go up, making it harder to pay it all back. America itself is turning into Pullman Place and KSF. …show more content…
But unfortunately where we are already getting there by Americans using credit cards and taking out loans, With loans and credit cards the government is turning into the company store, KSF company store abusing its workers. Octavia Butler writes about this for us to take debt slavery seriously and to watch what we do without money, before we all find ourselves living in a company town like