Parable of the Sower is set in a suburb of Los Angeles. The author, Octavia Butler, translates the existing dangers and chaos to portray the lives of a family living in this neighbourhood.
In the early 2020s, global climate change and economic crises led to social chaos in California. The residents have to cope with dangers, from water shortage to crowds of displaced persons who will do anything to live from day to day.
The author brings in fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina who lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and neighbors. They are sheltered from this chaos, but Lauren is a person of immense empathy with unbelievable sensitivity to other people's reactions to this crisis situation.
Lauren is determined to protect her loved ones from the imminent disasters her small community stubbornly ignores. But what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: the birth of a new faith . . . and a startling vision of human destiny.
Personal Commentary: A touching story of a community of families living in a changing era. The author focuses on a teenage girl, Lauren who attempts to protect her family within the community who do not seem to deal with the crises facing them.
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