By making use of the cliché vampire tales and transforming them into a unique fictional novel, Octavia Butler’s Fledgling takes the reader into a different world in which pleasure, hatred and persistence are combined to solve the mysterious life-threatening puzzle of a genetically modified vampire. Fledgling is a novel that exposes the ignorance hatred can create and the strength survival can generate. Nonetheless, Fledgling, like many other books, has its downfalls and confusions. Butler’s last novel expresses everything she believed and stood for, and opens the eyes to those who cannot see our universal issues by placing them in a totally different world. To begin with, Butler gives the reader more than just a book filled with words,…show more content… As the reader begins to understand Shori’s unique personality, it becomes apparent that she is not just an “immortal fictional being” (pg 16), she is a genetically modified vampire whose bite empowers her over humans. Furthermore, this novel makes the reader question many human aspects, but one of the most concerning topics is freedom. Unlike any other vampire novel, Fledgling describes the bites of these “vampires” as enjoyable and even addicting to the victims. Every bite becomes a “pleasuring” and satisfying” venom that slowly drains the free will of the human. Every bite creates a relationship between the victim and the predator which eventually becomes more of a necessity then a desire. Butler’s fledgling describes this relationship between the humans and these vampires as “symbiotic”. In other words, the prey needs the hunter as much as the hunter needs the prey. However, these hunters are not out for the kill, but rather for a lifelong symbiotic relationship in which they can feed off of them, but never hurt them. As a matter of fact, these vampires need and protect their “symbionts”, and to a deeper extent, they have an intimate relationship with them. This is the most unique factor of this novel, the concept of freedom and the motivation of those giving up the power over their being. What is in it for the victims? In the book it is stated that the saliva of these