Rhetorical Devices In Parable Of The Sower

A novel creates a dynamic connection with the audience and helps its readers use different physical and ideological perspectives to evaluate a figure. Style and rhetorical devices are used to express the author’s ideas. An author’s style makes a novel colorful and convincing or bland and boring. Octavia E. Butler’s novel, Parable of the Sower gives us very detailed examples that allow me to see the world through completely different lenses. Based on those examples, I have chosen to analyze and evaluate the main character, Lauren Olimina, in several ways. “Parable of the Sower is a novel that explores concepts of social Darwinism, dystopia, corruption, greed, corporatism, faith, and survival. It is a novel that presents a chilling look at what happens when the society that we have come to rely upon turns against us. The story lets us look at what happens when society and faith fail, but also how they can be reborn again. This is a novel that actively resists being easily categorized, and Lauren can be analyzed in a variety of ways.” We all have embraced patterns of thinking and we see different things through different physical and ideological lenses. How we think is dictated by the lens or lenses that we use as we think. Lenses allow us to see different perspectives and often find different information on that same subject, allowing us for a

This is an existentialist theory that holds that all humans are completely alone in reality as we each create a unique, distinct reality. For example, “When most of my community and rest of my family were wiped out, and I was alone, I still had Earthseed. What I am now, all that I am now is Earthseed.” (p. 262). Lauren is a very unique individual who’s God is a new concept altogether, a concept as an impersonal force of change that can be shaped by humans. Even though Lauren looses all of her family she preserves her spirit and is in search of a better