50 years from now...

Hello everyone, my name is Cindy Velasquez. I am happy to say that I've been in Mrs. Hicks English class since the beginning of my freshmen year. During these quarters we've discussed issues about the deficit of water in California, the great amounts of pollution, the problems in the food industry and in corporations, we've also discussed about nature in Los Angeles, all of these issues connecting to the environment. We have read many essays that we've connected to the environment, and also watched films, and now we are discussing Religion and what the ideal relationship is for humans and the environment. The environment is a very important issues and most religions believe that the people must take care of the environment because God created the Earth for us, therefore we must cherish the Earth.

After reading Parable of the Sower I realized how good our environment is for us right now, because in the book Lauren Olamina is living in a dystopian environment. The author Octavia E. Butler really helps us imagine the way the environment looks with her descriptive writing. Octavia published this book in 1993 thirty-one years prior to the date in the book, which is what she believed the world to be like during those years. The environment Lauren Olamina lives in is horrible her family and community must watch their backs from scavengers who ruin everything. She's lost her family, food is scarce, and they never knew when something bad was going to happen.

Life in 50 years from now would be the year 2061, and maybe we'll have more technology, but no one would be able to buy anything. The way our economy is working it may even be hard to take care of our own environment. Water is extremely scarce, California has run out of water, and soon we won't see water anywhere. I don't think anyone will be able to hold up a decent job, which means we won't have those big trucks to pass by picking up our trash and recycles. Our environments our going to be filled with trash, and because this isn't like in other countries we'll be so careless as to just leaving our trash wherever. Like in Parable of the Sower there will be those who become scavengers and ruin everything, and instead of trying to make the world a better place everyone will just give up. We will see sad faces, dead people, and scavengers everywhere the most messed up part is that those who we may see doing all the bad things might be people we once new. Everyone is going to be so messed up in the head, nothing is going to matter to them.

I believe that if we don't want something like this to happen, because it's a possibility something this horrible can happen, we must take care of our environment and join together to stop polluting the Earth. We must all come together and try to make a difference in our economy because times are rough, and we never know what can happen with the next days, months, or years. This book can definitely be used as an inspiration to help us from keeping our environments clean or to start cleaning the environment.