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Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower", 2001.
Critical Analysis of Octavia Butler's science fiction novel, "Parable of the Sower".
1,864 words (approx. 7.5 pages), 1 source, $ 59.95
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This paper presents a summary and analysis of "Parable of the Sower". The paper takes a look at biblical references in Butler's sci-fi story, as well as its parallels to the modern world and where our society may be headed.
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"Octavia E. Butler, the grande dame of science fiction, writes extraordinary, inspirational stories of ordinary people. Parable of the Sower is an ultimately hopeful tale set in a dystopian future United States of walled cities, disease, fires, and madness. Butler brings forth an utterly nightmarish vision of California in 2025, but one with a shockingly firm grounding in reality. Society, plagued by global warming and other detriments that Butler keeps unspecified, has collapsed. Los Angeles has devolved into walled island neighborhoods in a sea of utter chaos, (Butler, 23). Residents have been forced to themselves to keep from being overrun by hoards of homeless and starving just beyond the walls. Gangs of thugs rape, pillage and, under the influence of a drug called pyro, burn whole neighborhoods to the ground for the sheer joy of destruction. Everything we take for granted today now comes with a price. No one can be trusted. Violence is a way of life. People hear gunfire so much that [they no longer] hear it, (Butler, 440). Slavery is returning."
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"Kindred", 2006.
A review of Octavia Butler's "Kindred".
1,623 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 52.95
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This paper takes a look at 'Kindred' by Octavia Butler and discusses how this modern-day slave narrative brings into sharp focus the reality that we cannot escape history. The paper further discusses how the culture of our ancestors has clearly changed, but just as we carry on the bloodlines and genetic information from our ancestors, we also carry forward the remnants of their culture.
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"By entering into the role of a slave, Dana begins to negotiate and develop the ethic of compromise within her own head. She is perfectly aware that killing her "owner," Rufus, would bring no legal action in the modern world, nor would it likely bear any guilt on her psyche. However, she has become keenly aware from her second visit to Maryland that Rufus is not just any slave owner, he happens to be the man who will eventually father the first ancestor listed in her family tree. The repercussions of killing him would then logically lead to Dana and the rest of her family simply never coming into existence. Begrudgingly Dana accepts this knowledge and learns to survive in the same way that Alice, one of the house slaves, survives. At first Dana didn't understand how Alice could tolerate, and even express mild affection toward, Rufus after learning that Rufus had sold off three of Alice's children. Eventually Dana understands the complex relationship that all of the slaves have with Rufus through the knowledge that she must protect someone who does her harm ironically for her own protection. In the end, however, Dana comes to a full realization of the situation, and after her ancestor has been born and safely sent away from the plantation, she finally is placed in a situation where she must kill Rufus. Dana realizes that she cannot accept slavery no matter how kind or well-intentioned the slave owner is. "A slave was a slave. Anything could be done to her," Dana thinks as she sinks the knife into Rufus' side (Butler 284)."
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The Value of Family, 2001.
This paper compares the texts of Frederick Douglass' "Narrative of an American Slave" and Octavia Butler's "Kindred"
1,353 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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A comparison and discussion of two texts on slavery and its evils, "Narrative of an American Slave" by African-American slave, Frederick Douglass and "Kindred" by Octavia Butler. The paper shows how these novels show the dynamics of slavery- its horrible cost to the culture and country, and the continued efforts of people today to make sure it never happens again.
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"One of the most famous accounts of slavery in America comes from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself. Douglass was a gifted writer, and an eloquent orator who motivated and influenced numerous people, abolitionists, and politicians throughout his life on the subject of slavery and freedom."
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"Kindred", 2002.
A book review and analysis of "Kindred" by Octavia E. Butler.
1,075 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 37.95
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This essay takes the form of a brief summary, followed by a critique of the novel "Kindred" by the African-American woman science fiction author Octavia E. Butler. This novel details life on a plantation, but beyond its fictional scope it provides the reader with knowledge and information about what life was like during the age it chronicles. Ultimately, it presents its readers, both black and white, with a profound moral quandary of the impact of slavery upon the lives and ancestors of both slave owners and former slaves.
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"The novel tells the tale of a young, African-American woman of the present who is transported back in time to an era and a place in our country's history where she was no longer considered a human being but merely a piece of chattel. The woman's name is the very modern appellation of 'Dana.' The first time she is brought back in time to the ages of her ancestor, she meets a future slave owner named 'Rufus.' (A ridiculous name thinks Dana.) Rufus' life is endangered as child. Dana chooses to save the white baby Rufus, as one day he will become her own ancestor, though a slave-owner. She decides to do this even though the way the two of them will become linked is by a freeborn black woman becoming his slave and her own grandmother."
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"Dawn", 2002.
An assessment of Oankali science and human society in the novel "Dawn" by Octavia Butler.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper is a persuasive indictment of Oankali (alien) actions in the novel "Dawn" by Octavia Butler. It addresses international relations as well as literary theory, particularly the value of conflict and emotion in forming "human-ness". .
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"Kindred", 2002.
Report on "Kindred", a novel about slaves.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 35.95
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The novel "Kindred" by Octavia Butler describes the physical and psychological torments that slaves were subjected to.
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Time Travel, 2002.
A comparison of the representation of time travel in different pieces of literature.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper compares time travel in Ian Stewart's "Flatterland, Octavia Butler's Kindred, Michio Kaku's Hyperspace", and Kip Thorne's "Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy".
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Religious Influences, 2002.
An essay on how religious ideas shape human lives.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper compares Octavia Butler's novel "The Parable of the Sower" with the Parable of the Sower as told by Jesus in the Gospel of Luke. In the context of this comparison, it reflects upon the meaning and importance of religious ideas in shaping human life.
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