Octavia Butler makes me feel like I’m not supposed
to have hope. I realize that this book ended fairly well with them having land
and being together and getting to start something new, but it feels like every
single time Octavia gave the characters and the readers to grab onto, she
dashes it away. I do understand though, that what she is trying to show is that
even in the worst of times, something good can be achieved. They are the metaphorical
phoenixes rising from the ashes of all of their loved ones deaths and losses
and hardships.
It
made me very happy that others with hyperempathy joined Lauren’s group. They
offer a new dimension to the group that was being lost through Lauren and it
gives everybody the chance to think about themselves less and take into
consideration other’s feelings and hurts. It will bring their community a lot
closer together and they won’t have petty hatreds.
I
almost felt, that with these latest events, Octavia’s writings showed Lauren to
be thinking much more her actual age. She was thinking about love. She was
concerned about acceptance, especially from Bankole and Harry who she
considered the closest people to her. It was slightly refreshing because it
made Lauren much more real to the reader then she had previously been with her
much more mature way of viewing the world.
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