Parable of the Sower

In the story 'Parable of the Sower' by Octavia Butler, the author does relate many things that are happening in our society in a more gruesome and intense way.
In her book, Butler describes many things that are happening in our lives such as rape, the use of drugs, greed, money, the hard job that the government has, pollution and global warming. Butler describes these things very well but on a higher level of intensity. As we read the book we notice that many of the things in her story are already happening in our society, such as the economy collapse,and the gradually increasing space between the rich and the middle,and lower calsses.The issues are getting worse and Ithink that this could happen in our future. It is already happening in some poorer countries in Africa, where women get raped all the time, they have to pay a lot or walk very far to get food and water, their government isn't helping the people, there is lots disease and poverty.
Butler is describing these horrible things in Parable of the Sower, and we realize that but like Lauren we think about how we could help ourselves and others if that occurred.