Parable Of The Sower

According to the lecture from week ten, the definition of urban area is the field where it is surrounding a city and it has a high population density. Most of the urban areas are well-developed meaning there is a condensed collection of human structures, such as buildings, public infrastructure, real estate, labour markets, sites of production and consumption. In the book The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, it shows the book occurs in the future and it has negative affects about the society which it can be referred as dystopian fiction. In The Parable of the Sower, the author took some of the social issues that occurred during the 1980s and brought them into the future time, while there were no full solutions for the problems that were …show more content…
The novel expresses that it is anti-urban and it sees cities as a problem such as gated communities, gentrification and limited environmental resources that led people to rather live in a rural community than cities which nowadays people would prefer to live in a city, since there are more job opportunities, better daily supply of resources and more advanced technology.
According to Blakely and Syder, gated communities are residential neighbourhood with secured access, usually it has walls or fences and other controlled entrances which prevent infiltration by non-residents. In the novel, The Parable of the Sower, society is divided into three different types of social status; most of the upper-class residents live in a community in the anti-urban areas in which the thieves will not be able to reach the houses. Middle-class residents usually live in a walled community in the city …show more content…
In the novel, there is a private international company called KSF taking over a small coastal city which is called Olivar, and many of the wealthy people were trying to move to Olivar since there is great water, power, agricultural and more job opportunities. Furthermore, not all the wealthy people in the country can move to Olivar, the novel stated that people who are black and Hispanic will be discriminated by the white people and they are not welcomed to move into Olivar, which many of the black and Hispanic citizens are gathered in the same neighbourhood which it can be called as enclaves; it means there is a concentrated area where particular population group self defined by religion, ethnicity and others reside. The novel shows that gentrification causes problems in the city, such as the prices will dramatically increase and discrimination will occur. According to the example from the lecture, “Parkdale Community Groups Confront Gentrification” it talks about the displacement and how the rent was increased unfairly, it increased by 126 percent between 1996 and 2006. Some of the condominium residents were given seven days of notice to leave their homes after being told by the development company