Where would be in 50 years?

Hello my name is Diana Bucio and I'm a current student at CSULA. Since fall quarter all the way to spring quarter I've had Professor Jenny Hicks. What I like about having her is that the readings that we have to read have to do with topics that interest me the main one environment. Although environment is something that I enjoy reading but not so much of writting because I have a hard time to develop my ideas. The book that I must admit was the one that got my attention was the Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. The book was interesting for the fact that for me it covered three main issue: environment, religion, and social class. From all the three that got my attention was the environment. Keeping in mind that the book was written in the future and their struggles for water get water for hours or days and all because it cost them. When I first started reading when the journey started and they had to get water I imagined myslef. I imagined myslef because there are times when we ran out of water late in the evening although we have three gallons and sometimes water bottle and I hate to wait till the night when I pick up my mom from work since the water place is nearby. Its frustrates me and I'll just go buy a water bottle at the liquor store by my house instead of driving to get water. This made me think to myself if that is for me only a few hours and in rare ocassions what would happen to me if I was in Lauren Olamina . Which when I saw that this blog had to do with where we would see ourselves in 50 years i realized that this wasnt a hard topic like my essays have been. Its hard to imagine myself living in 50 years like in the book because there is so many think i dont see myself living with out. The two main things I dont see myself living without is water and food. Water main thing for drinking, especially if it couldbe cold, and also for hygiene. Food would be the second thing I would care for since all I would need to survive is water. As I have seen in the movie Chinatown last quarter and read in articles here in Los Angeles we get water from reservoirs that are filled up with water from rivers around us. The thing that the book made me realize is that humans waste to much water that in the story they wish they could have. In the book they mention in Chapter 21 about how the San Luis Reservoir doesn't have as much water. Thats how i picture the Owens Valley to be since that is where we get water from right now in the present. The book helped me see water as a valuable thing and although my family hates it when I'm always telling them to value what we have I know some day soon they will. "Although the book is dystopian it can always happened just like lot of books that we have read where if we see the past it has happened." I tell them and I have faith that will change them.