50 YEARS LATER...

Hello everyone, my name is Tanya Olvera just like the people above I'm also a student enrolled in Jenny Hick's English Stretch Composition class. As a class we were assigned to read Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler during our winter quarter. At first I wasn't excited to read this novel because quite frankly it dint look appealing to me or nevertheless relevant to me in anyway. My whole perspective about this novel changed dramatically when I began reading the first chapters without realizing I didn't want to put the book down. I was interested to know what new obstacles Lauren was going to be faced with, her reactions, but most importantly how she would overcome these problems. Overall I feel this novel is more of a dystopian fiction because its based on real outcomes we can later face because of the way we are living in today's world.For example, in the novel Lauren depicts the lack of importance we give to our environment and she vividly describes the world we might end up living in the future. Which as she describes its like living in hell where there is pollution,diseases,violence and poverty because as individuals we didn't protect our world.

This novel helped me become aware of the consequences that can happen if we don't use our resources wisely. One of my main concerns is, if in the future we will have enough water to survive.I currently live in East Los Angeles and I learned in my English class that we live in a desert land or dry land therefore we get our water from reservoirs that contain water from different parts of the world. The thought that all the people living in L.A depend on other countries to get water frightens me because what happens when there is no more water?what would we do then? The novel Parable of the Sower illustrates a mirror image of how our world will look like in the future. The lack of water will become a problem and people will be force to migrate from place to place searching for water to drink in order to survive.

If we as humans continue to abuse the water we have by using it in meaningless things we can damage our environment but most importantly ourselves significantly. An example of this is when we leave the water running while we are not using it. Now imagine how many people live in the entire world?How many people have the habit of doing this? If we were able to measure how much water is being dumped without making good use of it I'm sure it will add up to over billions and billions of gallons of water wasted. I don't know about you but that is water we will one day eventually need but by then it will be too late and the water will all be gone.I feel that this is a great novel because it raises awareness to the people and it provides us with harsh consequences that can happen if we don't change the way we value our water.

The way I visualize our world in 5o years is similar to what Lauren describes in the novel. With all the wars going on, pollution whether is industrial,pesticide or simply pollution cause by trash,violence and poverty in the world I feel that is where we are heading. Even worst then what Lauren describes in her novel I feel that if we continue to harm our environment we will eventually end up destroying our world. In the end we will end up living in a dystopian world.Where as Lauren describes people will be trying to kill each other for food and water because they are trying to survive.There would be no life on Earth because we were to selfish to protect our environment.