The Parable of the Sower offers a sense of hope for the redemption of future cities in its final chapters. Lauren’s belief in Earthseed and the parable she chooses to promote to the others in her group provide an optimistic view for the future of cities in North America, and sees cities as a solution to, rather than a source of, the problems that plague her world. In The Parable of the Sower, Lauren, Zahra, and Harry meet, among others, a man called Bankole who offers to let them move onto his property in Northern California, where water and other necessities of life are more plentiful than in Robledo. When the group arrives at the settlement, they plant oak trees and other vegetation and bury the dead among them, who are numerous. They name
