Octavia Butler

Assets

Parable of Sower

Kindered

Themes/Timeline/trends

Kindered

Themes/Timeline/trends

Famous Writings

Parable of the Sower

• Family
• Power and the corruption of it
• Slavery
• Freedom

This novel is about Lauren, a 15 year old girl living in LA in the year 2024. They live in a world where there is a drug called Pyro, which makes the user want to set fires. Laurens father is Paster who teaches at a college. Lauren has the ability to feel other peoples pain and pleasure due to her mother being additcted to drugs when she was born. When drug addicts attack her neighborhood she barely gets out. Lauren along with a small group have to try and figure out how to survive in this new world, and try to see the positives.

Speech Sounds

• Religion
• Gender-Lauren cuts all of her hair off to look more like a man for safety
• Change whether that be for the better or the worse

This novel is about a african-american woman named dana who lives in LA in 1976. She is married to a white man. She is time traveling back to the 1800s in order save her ancesters. Throughout the novel she is beated, almost raped, and threatened on multiple occasions.

Life History

Themes/Timeline/trends

• Octavia Butler was born in 1947, and died in 2006.
• She was an American science fiction writer and at this time was one of the few African-American women in her field.
• Butler was diagnosed with dyslexia at a young age but this didnt stop her from writing her own stories at the young age of 10.

Early Childhood

Octavia Butler

Speech Sounds is a short story that is about a pandemic that is affecting the whole world and everyone that is effected can not speak or even read. Everyone has to try and figure out how to survive through the isolation, fighting, and the loneliness.

• Fear
• Violence
• Isolation

Speech Sounds

• Butlers writing was often geared towards womans rights, social injustice, and racism. These topics are significant because when Butler was born segregation was still seen amoung the world. Butler took the fear, Violence, and lack of freedom that came from it all and placed it into her writing, all while giving the lead to a strong independant woman.
• Butler was granted several awards for her writing, but past that she paved the way for women to feel safe to write about science fiction, a genre that was previously written mostly by men. Butlers work offered a "safe passage" for those who needed it most, and a voice for those who felt they never had one.

Works cited

• “Kindred - (Bluestreak) 25th Edition by Octavia e Butler (Paperback).” Target, www.target.com/p/kindred-bluestreak-25th-edition-by-octavia-e-butler-paperback/-/A-11338919. Accessed 5 Oct. 2023.
• “Review: The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler.” Dear Author, 20 Mar. 2022, dearauthor.com/book-reviews/overall-c-reviews/c-reviews/review-the-parable-of-the-sower-by-octavia-butler/.
• “Octavia E. Butler.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, inc., 12 Oct. 2023, www.britannica.com/biography/Octavia-E-Butler.

Historical Significance