In a typical post-apocalyptic work, the world has crumbled into a state of survival that varies within each story. In the novels Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood and Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, both of the main characters are survivors in different situations. Both Snowman in Oryx and Crake and Lauren in Parable of the Sower take their surroundings and do what is necessary to thrive in what is now society during their time.
In Oryx and Crake, one of the main characters named Jimmy, or ‘Snowman’, tells his story of survival. One of his good friends, Crake, was a successful scientist who started a project called “Paradice”, where he creates a creature that imitates the best qualities of the human race. In simpler terms, Crake was …show more content…
Lauren lives in California around the year 2020. Society is breaking itself down between the lack of authority and skyrocketing crime. After living in fear and having her innocence stolen at a young age from what she had witnessed, Lauren begins to realize that nothing she knows will protect her or her family from the world around her going chaotic. Lauren was born with hyperempathy syndrome, which causes her to feel others’ pain, making t hard for her to live in the conditions she does. The communities have built walls to keep out the homeless people who will break into your home and torch it to the ground without a second thought. Lauren’s father is a minister who teaches the remaining members of his community to defend what is theirs. Soon, everything begins to go awry. Her brother runs away multiple times and is eventually killed, and her father disappears without a trace. Finally, the people outside of her community break into her neighborhood, and most of its residents are killed. Lauren and a group of people move on from this area and are on the run. Lauren had started her own philosophy, which she shares with the group she is traveling with. This philosophy is what she has created as she matured, and it is pretty much what she believes what will pave the road to the future of
In Oryx and Crake, one of the main characters named Jimmy, or ‘Snowman’, tells his story of survival. One of his good friends, Crake, was a successful scientist who started a project called “Paradice”, where he creates a creature that imitates the best qualities of the human race. In simpler terms, Crake was …show more content…
Lauren lives in California around the year 2020. Society is breaking itself down between the lack of authority and skyrocketing crime. After living in fear and having her innocence stolen at a young age from what she had witnessed, Lauren begins to realize that nothing she knows will protect her or her family from the world around her going chaotic. Lauren was born with hyperempathy syndrome, which causes her to feel others’ pain, making t hard for her to live in the conditions she does. The communities have built walls to keep out the homeless people who will break into your home and torch it to the ground without a second thought. Lauren’s father is a minister who teaches the remaining members of his community to defend what is theirs. Soon, everything begins to go awry. Her brother runs away multiple times and is eventually killed, and her father disappears without a trace. Finally, the people outside of her community break into her neighborhood, and most of its residents are killed. Lauren and a group of people move on from this area and are on the run. Lauren had started her own philosophy, which she shares with the group she is traveling with. This philosophy is what she has created as she matured, and it is pretty much what she believes what will pave the road to the future of