Octavia Butler's 'Dawn'

In discussing the scenario involving Officer Monroe’s traffic stop there are several integrity issues. The definition used for integrity in our class is as follows: “…forthright honesty and being the kind of person others can rely on for accurate, complete, and timely disclosure of facts.”

As with Schiff, in, ‘Some Matching Strangeness’: Biology, Politics, and the Embrace of History in Octavia Butler’s Kindred by Benjamin Robertson there is a shift taking place in the scholarship on Kindred away from purely examining the way the novel interacts with and connects, or fails to connect, itself and it’s readers to the past. Robertson’s main areas of interest include science fiction, fantasy, horror, and twentieth and twenty-first century literature (Robertson, Curriculum). Conceding that most of the scholarship on Kindred reduces her work, “to a meditation on ahistorical notion of embodiment, and her concerns with American history are reduced to reimaginings of history with nothing new to offer the field,” Robertson turns his article towards the role of bodies as a means both to be oppressed and fight oppression, as well as the unique position a black female protagonist has in Kindred. At times, Robertson falls into the same trap that

Australia has small crystals that enables scientist map out earths existence; they are called Zircons. The earth began as dust. The planet was extremely hot at first and without a certain collusion it would not be what it is today. A planet with four seasons and with tides in the ocean from the moon. At first, there were no continents they would come along later, so it was mostly water. Next, single cell organisms and photosynthesis would start creating oxygen. In fact, oxygen was so abundant it froze most the planet. Eventually, oxygen would lead the planet to multicellularity. Life would come and go many times over the course of time. This would be causes by catastrophic events, but life would always be resilient. All life evolved from the sea.

In the beginning there was nothing except for the sun and giant Australian shepherds who ruled the land. These Australian shepherds lived in a palace, high above where the earth would once form, close to the sun. When new Australian shepherds were born they would often have parties to celebrate the new puppies. One day the emperor of the dogs and his wife had some new puppies, and the dogs threw the biggest party that the palace had ever seen, they were having so much fun that party shook the whole palace, and even the sun. Everything began to rumble and shake. So a part of the sun fell out of the sky hurdling and landing on Earth. This making a huge explosion. When this happened it created the rivers, mountains, rocks, and trees. The party

Published June 1971,Octavia Butler’s science fiction narrative, Kindred, gives a glimpse into how life was for African Americans during slavery in the Antebellum South. Kindred serves as a time portal between the 1800s and the year 1976. As the main character Dana goes from an 1800’s plantation to her home in 1976 it is obvious that time period changed, however being that Dana is constantly back and forth between the two times, she is able to see exactly how drastic the change was and what liberties she took for granted by living in 1976.

A question I have for you is how you do see humans in relations to Nature? Nature is a vague term, and the way you emphasize people to embrace its simplicity implies humans were apart from Nature to begin with. This inherently

Firstly, to deduce how the Earth came to form the structures we know today in modern Earth, we must go back

The earth has been evolving for billions of years, growing in population as well as

It is said that every human is an eye that can see but one ray of the unified truth, but often we become blind even to that particular ray. A remedial text to open our eyes, Nature is designed to bring man back to a “medicinal” nature so that we can once again awaken to see the world and experience it in its true form (Emerson, 11). Arguing that there are two parts to the universe, the soul and nature, Emerson elucidates how “the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind,” although conventionally these facets are viewed as two distinct and disjointed entities (Emerson, 19). Isolated from nature, man does not understand that they are the manifestation of nature, and instead they become enslaved by convention. The standard which projects meaning and significance to the world, the quintessential man only becomes human through the interaction and unity with his surrounding world as he seeks to discover nature and himself through beauty.

The future is tough to predict. Parable of the Sower is a very well-written science fiction novel by Octavia Butler. The setting is California in the year 2025. The world is not prosperous anymore and has turned into a poverty stricken place. There are countless homeless people, jobs are scarce, and there are very few communities of homes. The few communities that are still occupied have huge walls with barbed wire and laser wire surrounding them. There are robberies, murders, and rapes just about every day. People walk the streets naked and bloody because their clothes were stolen or they could never find any. Some people live in the hills like animals. They kill anything that comes along, human or not, for food and to protect their territory. Some of these people are drug addicts who create fires for their own satisfaction. Everyone who has a chance to live must carry a gun so no one can harm or try to do anything to them. In this society the police do not help because you have to pay them to come to the scene of a crime. Most people cannot afford to pay their fees so they handle whatever they can on their own. The protagonist of this story, Lauren, decides to leave this society for something better an forms a spiritual group called “Earthseed.” The word “earthseed” is actually a metaphor.

It was almost 9 trillion years ago from what Zalapogos stood on. Two of the biggest space rocks known to man exploded in 1525 B.R.E, which were known as Arocarike and Zalivekite. After the huge explosion taking over 250 million years, it left 12 planets, and a planet known as Earth. The planet of Earth was just plain land, and water. It was only 3 days after the Earth was formed, that God sent Adam and Eve to start life on Earth.

Our planet is carrying so much secrets while it rotates its axis, and revolves around the sun in elliptic path. The biggest question man that ever faced is, why do living organisms have so much biodiversity since they all come from a common ancestor? In order to answer this question, we have to see the earth’s past life. Rodina is the first supercontinent in our whole geological time period, and the meaning of this word is “homeland” in Russian language. This Precambrian continent was the dominant land mass for at least 350 million years until it started to tear apart because of the heat beneath this

“Bloodchild” is a story that pushes the limits of humankind, creating blurry interpretations of good and evil that challenges everyday societal norms. Octavia Butler takes a traditional action-filled story and twists it into an unexpected and intensified tale. Through this heightened piece of work, the most compelling argument can be found from the structure of the narrative itself. From the first-person narrative, readers are able to receive first hand perspective in which no omniscience of any sort can be detected. Readers can acquire the character’s actions, thoughts, and interpretation of the things that happen to them. “Bloodchild” is a story of an alien planet where the Terrans are enslaved by an alien race called the Tlic. Gan, the protagonist, has been promised as a host for the alien embryos in which the story will later reveal a deeper meaning underlining the sacrifice.

Some may say we have lost the connection or relationship with nature . The world as a whole has become more and more distant as time has went on. The earth is used for so much but many don’t take enough time to realize how much it is actually used. The relationship between the earth and its people is explored in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Nature” and Mark Twain’s “The Lowest Animal” In both of these pieces the authors go into the relationship between nature and the people though they both have this in common they each have their differences as well. While comparing and contrasting these texts it opens up the mind to view things that may not usually be seen. Such as the behaviors and habits of the many people that live on this planet earth.

There are many authors who write poems, stories, and books about the relationship with nature and mankind, a bond that needs to be molded once again. The relationship with nature that mankind has is sad, for we have a forsaken it. We destroy nature and don't care, in fact, we are trying to leave it, this planet. To proudly survive in this world, the human race needs to reconnect with nature, otherwise it'll strike back on humanity for its destruction of the world. Authors like Ralph W. Emerson and Jack London wrote stories of nature and of their beliefs about it and what mankind should do to reconnect with it. I will give quotes on to those stories, their ideas, and what I think about nature and mankind together.