Octavia Butler's The Parable Of The Sower

Parable of the Sower takes place in Octavia Buttler’s apocolypse (Old English, via Old French and ecclesiastical Latin from Greek apokalupsis, from apokaluptein ‘uncover, reveal,’ from apo- ‘un-’ + kaluptein ‘to cover’). In an interview, Buttler said that when writing the book, she took many of the issues of the modern world and took them to their natural conclusion. In doing so, by defintion, Buttler has created an apocalyptic work.
For Parable of the Sower to be fully understood, one must first be willing to challenge the dominant view of this work. Most have been mistaken that it is not set in a dystopian future, rather it is set in a is an apocalyptic future. The beauty of the story is that it shows the birth of what could very well be
In Octavia Butler's apocalyptic rendition of the American future, does include a problematic government that operates more obviously as a criminal organization, but because their is no facade of perfection being publicised by the government, and because most of the population does not subscribe to the view that their larger society and government operate at or near near perfection. In fact, many feel that the government is virtually powerless to improve their life. For this reason, the novel can’t be seen as a dystopian
Even as the old world comes to an end, Butler shows that the it does not have to mean the end of humanity. Western Society popularizes the idea that the end of western of society will result in the end of the world. Parable of the Sower shows that even if a civilization ends it doesn’t result in the end of the humankind. Lauren and her followers prosper as the old systems fail, a triumphant challenge to the selfimportantance/righteousness of the the commonly found among both western society and science fiction. Not afraid to tackle gender, age, racial issues, the the Earthseed community within Parable of the Sower has members of from many diverse ethnic backgrounds. Other popular books, this one radically (especially for the time) reimagined a future society led by a black women. In the novel Natividad and Travis, joined Lauren’s group in order to avoid the sexual harassment of Travis’s former boss that was directed towards of Natividad. This draws parallel to the behavior many slaves had to endure throughout American (and world history), as well as the escape many dreamed of while in bondage in the United