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Parable Of The Sower Analysis

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At the open of The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, the characters experience a shortage in safe, quality housing; within our course we have explored the crisis of housing as it exists today and as it is influenced by the militarization and securitization of private property. Lauren says in The Parable of the Sower that it is “crazy to live without a wall to protect you.” (Butler 10). During lecture 5, Professor Cowen discussed securitization and its impact on housing, particularly in the US where gated communities have become increasingly common over the past two decades. Lauren lives in a world where only the lowliest members of society cannot afford to live in gated communities, and thus are restricted from services which would allow

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