"Parable of the Sower" by Octavia E. Butler Part 2
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- "What a piss-poor liar he is. Always was. He's got no conscience. He just isn't smart enough to tell convincing lies." - Page 106
- "Keith came home yesterday, bigger than ever, as tall and lean as Dad is tall and broad. He's not quite 14, but he already looks like the man he wants so much to be... " - Page 104
- "I don't give a sh*t about him."
- "Nothin' else."
- "Yeah."
- "You're not done causing Dad and Cory pain are you? Not by a long shot?"
- "I made rabbit stew and acorn bread- enough for Cory and all the boys when they came in. He hung around and watched me work for a while, then began to talk to me. He's never done that before. We've never, never liked each other, he and I. But he had information I wanted..." - Page 105
- "So you read for a living- help your new friends learn to use their stolen equipment."
- "And what else?"
- "He's you. Every time I look at you, I see him. Every time you look at him you see yourself."
- "Dad got us all together and described to us what had been done. He told it in a flat, dead monotone. He wanted to scare us, to scare Marcus, Bennett, and Gregory in particular. He wanted us to understand just how dangerous the outside is." - Page 113
- "Today, my parents had to go downtown to identify the body of my brother Keith." - Page 112
- "I haven't been able to write a word since Wednesday. I don't know what to write. The body was Keith's. I never saw it, of course. Dad said he tried to keep Cory from seeing it. The things someone had done to Keith before he died... Someone had cut and burned away most of my brother's skin. Everywhere except his face. They burned out his eyes, but left the rest of his face intact- like they wanted him to be recognized... Some of the wounds were days old." - Page 113
- "The police said drug dealers torture people the way Keith was tortured. They torture people who steal from them and people who compete with them. We don't know whether Keith was doing either of these things. We just know he's dead." - Page 113
- "Dad didn't come home today. He was due this morning. I don't know what that means. I don't know what to think. I'm scared to death. Cory called the college, his friends, fellow ministers, co-workers, the cops, the hospitals... Nothing." - Page 129
- "His bike was working all right. He was all right. He had ridden off toward home with three co-workers who lived in other neighborhoods in our area. Each of these said the same thing: That they had left him as usual at River Street where it intersects Durant Road. That's only five blocks from here. We're at the tip-end of Durant Road. So where is he?" - Page 129,130
- "Last night, when I escaped from the neighborhood, it was burning. The houses, the trees, the people: Burning. Smoke awoke me, and I shouted down the hall to Cory and the boys. I grabbed my clothes and emergency pack and followed Cory as she herded the boys out. The bell never rang. Our watchers must have been killed before they could reach it. Everything was chaos. People running, screaming, shooting. The gate had been destroyed. Our attackers had driven an ancient truck through it..." - Page 153
- A year has passed and it is now 2026. Keith keeps coming and going to and from the house. This time he tells Lauren that he has found a place for him to live, a room. He starts going on about its technological advances but he doesn't mention where and how he is acquiring all this. As a result, Lauren questions him but it makes him uncomfortable. Lauren then mentions the pain that Keith is causing to the family and he snaps at her. Keith lets her know that he has no care for their father, despite the fact that they look very much alike.
- "I think they must have been pyro addicts-- bald people with painted heads, faces, and hands. Red faces; blue faces; green faces; screaming mouths; avid, crazy eyes, glittering in the firelight." - Page 154
- The fear of the family has finally become a reality. Keith is found dead downtown. The body appears to be burned, peeled, and wounded beyond repair. The body was just horrific and immediately shocks the family. The most impacted is Cory. Keith was her oldest son so she babied him and spoiled him. Lauren points out that even though Cory said she doesn't do favorites, Keith is her preferred son. Lauren is shocked and disturbed but not as surprised as everyone else due to her warnings.
- Zahra
- "Lauren?"
- "Are you all right?"
- "I circled the neighborhood, keeping the wall in sight, then made a greater circle. I saw no one- or at least no one I knew. I saw other street poor who stared at me. Then because I didn't know what else to do, I headed back toward my burned out garage on Meredith Street... But where was my family! Someone called my name. I turned around, my hand in my pocket, and saw Zahra Moss and Harry Balter." - Page 164
- "We walked down to the freeway- the 118- and turned west. We would take the 118 to the 236 and the 23 to U.S. 101. The 101 would take us up the coast toward Oregon. We became part of a broad river of people walking west on the freeway... We saw a few trucks... It's against the law in California to walk on the freeways, but the law is archaic." -Page 176
- The disappearance of Reverend Olamina is spreading panic and worry through the family. Not only Lauren and her family, but also the community as Reverend Olamina was very important in helping the community through hard times like poverty and lack of food. In the family, Olamina is the one who not only provides but protects and enforces the house. Lauren assumes he is dead despite her wishes due to the violence and danger that the streets have.
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- "A woman alongside us collapsed. I got no impression of pain from her, except at the sudden impact of her body weight on her knees. That made me stumble, but not fall... Almost everyone was filthy. Their bags and bundles and packs were filthy. They stank. And we, who have slept on concrete in ashes and dirt, and who have not bathed for three days- we fitted in pretty well." -Page 177
- ROBLEDO
- It is the year 2027. Lauren wakes up to the smell of smoke. The house has been set on fire. The people guarding the house has been killed. The invaders seem to be pyro addicts. Pyro is a drug that makes the user have an obsession with fire. As a result, the breaking and entering turned into setting fire to the Olamina house. Lauren flees with her bag but is separated from Cory and her brothers. She sees familiar faces being attacked and set aflame. There are gun shots and ash. We see how important the presence of Reverend Olamina is.
- "They were an unlikely pair, but they were definitely together. They managed, without touching each other, to give the appearance of all but clinging together. Both were blood spattered and ragged." -Page 164
- Lauren escapes her house in flames. She looks outside and not just her house is on fire. The whole neighborhood had been attacked. Lauren sees familiar faces on the floor either in a pool of blood or burned to ash. However, she doesn't see her family at all. As Lauren begins to panic, she sees Harry Balter, Robin Balter's oldest brother, and Zahra Moss, Richard Moss's youngest wife. The trio seem to be the only survivors from the neighborhood and eventaully help each other survive.
- Harry
- As Lauren, Harry, and Zahra shop for supplies at Robledo, they decide that the only way to survive and maybe find work is to go North towards Canada. They haven't had a place to live for days. They were filthy, but it was dangerous to not be. Anyone different from the crowd provokes robbery and assumption of riches. Lauren's hyper-empathy kicks in when a woman collapses painfully on the ground from pure exhaustion. The painful road will not end for the trio.
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