This can be shown by the creation of nuclear missiles during the second world war, in our own society. This fear also influences our view of short stories and novels as shown by Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild using fears such as arachnophobia, and xenophobia to bring out the fear of the reader. This fear made readers misconceive the theme of Bloodchild to be a slavery story but instead this story is that of an interdependence relationship between the T’lic and the humans. This interdependence is shown by the T’lic relying on humans for reproduction in order to carry on their species while they give in return safety from the animals on the planet, medicine in the form of eggs, and a longer life span, but the audience’s fears act on this to make us not want to believe it. If these fears influence our outlook on a short story one must ask what else does it influence on a daily basis, but this a question for another
This can be shown by the creation of nuclear missiles during the second world war, in our own society. This fear also influences our view of short stories and novels as shown by Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild using fears such as arachnophobia, and xenophobia to bring out the fear of the reader. This fear made readers misconceive the theme of Bloodchild to be a slavery story but instead this story is that of an interdependence relationship between the T’lic and the humans. This interdependence is shown by the T’lic relying on humans for reproduction in order to carry on their species while they give in return safety from the animals on the planet, medicine in the form of eggs, and a longer life span, but the audience’s fears act on this to make us not want to believe it. If these fears influence our outlook on a short story one must ask what else does it influence on a daily basis, but this a question for another