The Parable Of The Sower

Set in the near future of a post-apocalyptic world, The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, follows humanity decades after as it continues to rebuild from a tribulation believe to have been sent by God to punish sinners of the past. The inhabitants of this dystopian society are left with little knowledge of their past, with only a copy of the Bible and its Repentances left by the past inhabitants, to give them a sense of direction. Wyndham presents the Waknuks (a small community living in this post tribulation world) struggles as a society to understand identity by practicing religious beliefs, physical appearance and fears a false perception of identity.

This book tells the story of a man named Matthias who rose to fame through exploiting people through religion. During the rise of market society the mixing of religions brought about new struggles in society like never before. Mattias starts out in a rural town being raised,eventually though he moves out headed towards New York. Where market society is starting to thrive. He meets a girl and gets married. Has kids at builds a fortune as a skilled carpenter. After some failed business ventures he starts to turn to different religions. One after another they start to morph him. He stops working, his family life crumbles, and ends up desperate and confused in the end. Then he claims god comes to him in a vision and names him the incarnate messiah as Mettias the prophet. After this he is able to convince a small amount of people that this is true. Most importantly among them Elijah Pierson, who is a wealthy businessman. Through his funds he is able to make the kingdom of Matthias. Where many eccentric things occur and he ends up accused of murder, even though not convicted. It shows just how far religion can go. Especially with the rise of the market society where all of this began. None of this never would have happened without it. Mattias would have never ventured into the booming city because it never would have existed. He would have have stayed in his home village and lived out his days there. Through this book and the times we live in now, market society is essential to

Sixty years separate the publication of the dystopias The Children of Men and Brave New World, but both authors express their depictions of a future world in which religion is drastically changed, and not for the better. Religion and spirituality serve a number of purposes in the two novels, most notably to illustrate the difference between our society and their dystopian society, and also to show the importance of faith in overcoming the difficulties which human beings face.

Many people wonder what the future is going to be like, if we humans are going to make Earth better, if robots are going to take over, or if the earth gets blown up. In this Science-fiction novel, Elites of Eden, by Joey Graceffa, gives us a glimpse at what the earth might be like 10,000 years later. In this book it starts off with Yarrow , young, rich, mean girl, who has everything she could ever want. Then a girl named Lark shows up at her school, and she gets a weird feeling like she’s met her before, later she finds out that she is actually Rowan, and her mind was erased by her “mother”. All of her memories from being Rowan come back, from being a second child to watching her mother get shot to protect her. In the end, when Rowan blows up the underground, she thinks this is the end for her, but the EcoPan, the robot that controls all of Eden, tells Rowan that it was the one that brain washes everyone and that the Earth is ready to live on, but it can’t let humans into the real world because we will ruin it. Then the EcoPan let Rowan out to the real Earth instead of her dying brother and she swore revenge.

There are three parables in Luke 15 and they are all talked about “lost”. The first parable is about a lost sheep, the second parable is about losing a dollar, and the third parable is about losing a son. When I was reading this chapter of Luke, I feel marveled with these three; because I think one parable is enough and wonder why Luke provided three parables? We need to understand the purposes of these three parables are not about the loss of people, but are focusing on how Jesus treats with these people. If Luke only wanted to talk about the loss, then one parable is enough. However, the main focus is how Jesus treats with these people, so three parables are indispensable.

Death is a very popular theme in world literature; authors seem to feed off the anguish it causes readers. However, there are many types of deaths from many different eras. For example, in its broadest sense death has two forms homicide and suicide. Homicide for instance, dates all the way back to the two earliest works of literature known to man; The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Holy Bible. Suicide is also ancient, but has a much darker feel to it. Despite death being universal throughout time, there are some striking similarities in today’s world.

Suzanne Collins has awakened characters considered as minorities, to stand firm despite seemingly insurmountable opposition. Serving as a motivation to many with their assurance towards social change. Demonstrating that books are to engage, as well as to convey illumination of ethics to individuals all around the globe. Known for being supernaturally roused, the Bible, addresses how society is overwhelmed by social standards, which impact an alternate point of view of profound quality. As Jesus, the protagonist of the book, teaches he is regularly gone up against by the Pharisees, his opposition, with customs and consecrated ceremonies. Jesus brings understanding through an assortment of absolute opposites which challenge the weak

In the worlds of The Last Man by Marry Shelly and A Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, the lives of the survivors of the apocalypse are thrown into chaos. In The Last Man, the people of England are driven out of their native home by the plague and forced into the desolate wasteland that is Europe. In A Handmaid’s Tale, Gilead society has torn Offred away from her past life and severed all her connections to it. In these troubled times, characters turn to religion either by force or their own free will. In apocalyptic scenarios in literature, the fragmentation of memories make the victims of the event susceptible to the controlling influence of religion.

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Jesus tells a parable about a farmer who sows his seed around his land. The seeds fall on different types of land and this ends with them having different outcomes for the seeds. The seeds in this story represent how different people take the word of God differently.

During the summer of 2015, I toured the scorching, arid western United States with my father on a five-week camping extravaganza. The distances traveled to our selected national park destinations were usually lengthy, so I would often read to occupy myself. Unfortunately, my father warned me that he would purchase just one book for my reading pleasure—which happened to be John Green’s Paper Towns—and I unabashedly finished reading the novel within eight short hours. He brought a couple books of his own, and after glancing at the two divergent choices, I decided against Chicken Soup for the Soul and instead grabbed Matthew Kelly’s The Four Signs of a Dynamic Catholic. My church had given hundreds of copies away to all parishioner families during the previous Christmas season, so I quickly recognized it. What better way to improve my faith than read a Catholic book recommended by my church? After all, I had not contemplated flipping through the pages until my usually vast disposal of novels became tremendously limited.

As you can see, there are many sociological perspectives that can be applied when analyzing and interpreting the actions of the characters in “The City of God”.

In addition to such problem there are clear allusions to Christianity; take the founders of the Circle thought out the world they are known as The Three Wise Men. In biblical texts, the Three Wise Men are known as Magi who bestowed gifts on the day Jesus was born; typically the gifts were given in order to prompt a better lifestyle of Jesus. Although, in Dave Eggers novel, the Three Wise Men did bring gifts to the world—mainly the Circle and the programs they created—rather than creating a better world look at Mae, Annie, and Mercer. Mae becomes a dehumanized version of herself who ends up being alone at the end of the novel; Annie by being part of the PastPerfect project it caused for her to have a nervous breakdown resulting in a comma; and lastly, Mercer, Mercer ends up committing suicide by the hands of the Circle. Although the Three Wise Men in a religious view brought gifts to help Jesus, the Three Wise Men in The Circle brought chaos; they might have the same title of the Three Wise Men but in fact they are not the same. After seeing the affects the Circle has on people’s lives, it is interesting to note how “cult” like the Circle is in regards to their goals, thus leading to the final question, is the rise of technology going to lead us to a utopian society—“heaven”—or a dystopian

Religion guides humans to a higher order of existence through the collective organization of beliefs, cultural identities, and world views. Religion seeks to define the meaning of life and human existence through historical narratives, symbols, and faith. Since the birth of religions, these have adopted a central focus of the way people live, their lifestyle choices, and their boundaries. In doing so, religion has been used as a preeminent theme in works of literature since the ancient world, as the greater part of first written texts were religious stories. Throughout centuries however, writers have been adapting religion in literature in many different ways, such as in: Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, Dracula by Bram Stoker, and “On the Road” by Langston Hughes. Religion in these literary works has played a life-changing role in the lives of its characters. In these texts, some characters accept established religions while others reject it, instead, focusing their time on creating their own.

This novel is very intriguing and teaches lessons of morality, religion, and of life and death intended for those with imagination and insight.