Tag: Octavia Butler
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Discussion of Kindred by Octavia Butler
Kindred shows our connection to our past. Octavia Butler wrote ahead of her time. Now we hear lots of conversations about past lives and people interrupting the timeline to help ancestors; Butler wrote about this in the 80s. We hear Butler say that she is not writing the future, just ways that we can prevent…
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Discussion of Octavia Butler Mind of my Mind
Doro is all powerful and he cannot be defeated. He goes around killing and no one can stop him. They all do what he says and he won’t have it any other way. He picks who gets to live and die. He mates women with whoever he likes. Sometimes in our lives we want to…
Diamonds or Light? 