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Raven From The Hunter's Guild Universe Analysis

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One of the first lectures that I attended was about horror and fiction papers. The first one was really creepy, but the rest were really interesting. The one I liked the most and that I could relate to the class somehow was “Raven” a story from the Hunter’s Guild Universe by Deborah Atkinson. The main characters are Raven and her mother. The story starts by Raven and her mom talking. The mother tells Raven the story of how she found her time ago in an some place of the city. The little Raven was chased by some guards, she found her, but some mysterious men protected them both by making those guards follow him. They did not know who he was, the only information they had of Raven was her blanket, which had the sign of the royal family. However, that is not enough information. Raven does not want to know about this guy, she is just thankful that her mother …show more content…

At the end of the story, the author explained that what she intended to do was to project today’s situation towards a faraway future where people would have to be genetically modified to fit into society. I think that the paper would probably relate more to race and ethnicity issues, but I want to talk about the mother-daughter relationship and how society dictates how those people had to look like. First, Raven’s mother felt the need to take the baby and raise her because no one else would do it. Second, Raven had to hide her physical appearance in order to be accepted and escape from a terrible destiny. This was actually the first time that I attended one of these events and it was interesting. When I went upstairs to see the posters it amazed me of how many posters and people were there. I took a

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