Joseph Butler's Parable Of The Sower

Parable of the sower is a book that could not be put in just one category for sure. It’s a book that covers a lot of different genres. One of them is feminist politics. Butler wants to change the world view about sci-fi books, she wants to show these type of books are not always about supernatural creatures, but it could be about our own world in different time and the main character should not always be a boy with super power, but it could be a young black girl. Parable of the sower has a heroine. A young girl that changed a lot of people’s view and helped them to realize that the world is not what they think is and teaches them how to survive the new world.
The book starts with the female character describing her community. A place that is not as safe as people think. They have walls around their city for protection, but it’s not going to stop the thieves and dangerous people from coming to their house. After death of Amy, Lauren knows that their city is not a safe place anymore and sooner or later they should leave. ” Surrounded by people who refuse to see the truth, she alone is open enough and …show more content…
While Lauren’s mother was pregnant, she took some drugs, called Einstein and that cause Lauren to get hypermpathy that makes her to feel the pain and the pleasure of others.” Butler delivers a heroine who must think of the pain she causes others, because she will literally feel it herself, and a heroine who must overcome a disability in order to succeed and survive”(Zaki). While at first this disability makes Lauren seems weak, but through the end the hypermpathy makes her to become stronger and since she can feel other pain that makes her to become gentler toward others than before. It makes her to look at the people around her as humans and not aliens and so she help people who need help, people who later on turn back the favor and stay by her