I think it is only fair that I dedicate a blogpost to comparing the two novels we have read in this class so far. Brave New World is a lot more satirical and tongue in cheek while 1984 is very gritty and dark. They both however, explain the authors concerns about the society they lived in and their worries for the future. They both represent the potential for society to go awry if it continues down its current path.
Before reading the Parable of the Sower I have been lucky enough to have experience with Octavia Butler's other work, in particular the book Kindred. This novel discusses a woman who is pulled back into time in the Antebellum South at varying rates, and thus as a black woman becomes acutely aware of the horrors of slavery. It will be interesting for me to see the similarities between this book and that one.
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