Review: Parable Of The Sower By Octavia E. Butler

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The research question I have selected is important to me because I can connect to it with a strong passion. The research question has to do with where I am today as a human being and my vision for 2066 hopes to improve today’s world. In 2016 the election year, the campaigns have had an influence on the people worldwide. I am a proud US citizen thanks to the sacrifices my parents made, but I am also very fortunate to be Hispanic. Unfortunately, in this world there are people who are racist and refuse to see individuals who are different and respect them for who they are, human beings. I am against those who think that individuals are defined by their culture or where they come from. I think that despite our physical differences, we are all human …show more content…
Butler. In the book, Octavia does an amazing job with the details in the scenes that I had a clear imagination in my mind of what was going on. Specifically, the scenes when Octavia describes the terrible situation that the village goes through. As I read that the village was attacked by the people in the outside, it was clear that the reason for the attacks had been influenced by inequality in the structure, that was when I developed a connection. In my world of 2066, I extrapolate from the book and want to avoid these type of disasters. I want to save the life of innocent people who die as a result of an outrage by other humans. I strongly believe that no human has the right to kill another human, especially not over anger towards differences among one another. At the pace this world is going in 2016 I can definitely see a future similar to the ones described in Butler’s book. But I speculate a world that is different from the book. I want to project in my 2066 world, a world where humans learn from the experiment and prevent humans from killing each other while at the same time learn to respect their differences. To reiterate this is an example of what I DO NOT want in my …show more content…
I am against a world where money or your skin color defines an individual. Why should money determine what you are capable of doing, or even worse, why should your skin color determine whether you live or die? After conducting research, I came across a film “The Purge (year)” that explained with images what I wanted to avoid in my world. I extrapolate from the film the horrific capitalism structure they live by, where money determined the type of security you can afford. I simply can not image being put in a situation where if I do not have money for a big luxurious house with the ultimately security system, my family and I will die. Similarly, the film also presents the idea that people of color should be killed. I am Absolutely against it, and as a response I can speculate that in my world everyone will learn to respect each other 's differences and your ethnicity will not define you. I want to project a civilized world where humans all learn to give each other the opportunity to witness someone else’s experiences and then understand why it is they are the way they

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