Earthseed In Octavia Butler's Parable Of The Sower

In Octavia Butler’s novel Parable of the Sower she writes about how religion is something that is everywhere, and there truly hasn’t been a society in history that has functioned without one. All throughout Lauren’s childhood, she was forced to follow a religion that she did not believe in due to the fact that her mother and father did believe in it. So Lauren decided to create her own religion called Earthseed. This religion has the main idea that the seeds of life can be transplanted, and can eventually grow no matter the situation. So it was made a lot to provide hope in a place that is full of crime, death, and sadness. Throughout Lauren’s travels she ends up with a very large group of diverse people looking for something better than …show more content…
As the taxi ride progressed, I started noticing a few things about the taxi driver. He had a giant mustache across his face that sort of looked like a caterpillar, and his arms were abnormally hairy. But after five minutes I became interested in the taxi driver and went back to playing my DS. Finally the hotel came into view, and the taxi driver stopped the car and asked for the amount of money owed. Which my dad payed swiftly. After that my brother, sister, and I were guided to the couches that were located in the lobby, while my parents spent about twenty agonising minutes checking us in. After the long flight I just wanted to lay down and rest, but my dad thought it would be a wonderful idea to go out into the city and explore some of the many different places. Groaning and dragging my feet along with shoulders hunched forward I followed my eager parents into a place that I had never been before. The hustle and bustle of the day was all around me, and the amount of people who were walking throughout the streets and the sidewalk was astounding. About five minutes into the walk a loud noise boomed throughout the entire city chanting words in a language I had never heard before. Personally, I was convinced that it was a bomb siren because I had never heard anything like it before, but I found out from a tour guide who saw my halfway scared, halfway questioning face that it was the call to prayer. …show more content…
So I backed down and put a scarf over my head, and I walked into the mosque that stood before me. As I looked around all I could see were people and golden walls. My jaw dropped open as I turned around only to see more and more gold walls and mosaics that went from the ground to the ceiling. I was so fascinated by everything around me that I almost stepped on a person who was kneeling on the ground towards the front of the mosque. This person was praying in the middle of a crowded mosque filled with tourists, but he didn’t care. I had to think to myself for a moment why he didn’t care if he would be stared at or mocked for just stopping in the middle of a busy tourist attraction. I noticed my family getting further and further from me so I had to catch up with them so I stopped thinking about the man in the middle of the mosque, and skipped along. While I was staring down from the balcony in the most gigantic mosque I had ever seen my eyes kept going back to the man who was still praying. And then it dawned on me why the man would stop in the middle of a crowded place, why the woman of this faith cover their entire bodies, and why a loud noise rings throughout the entire city five times a day. It was their religion. And their religion brought them together as a community. Going on that trip was the most eye opening experience that I have ever had, and I don’t think that I