In Parable of the Sower Octavia Butler Defines family as important but scarce. The only real family she has leaves her. First Keith who destroys the family by leaving not once not twice but three times. Keith steals money and guns which then leads to her dad beating him. After Keith dies Laurens dad goes missing . Her father was the only family she could trust and After the disappearance Cory and Laurens other brothers die in the fire set off by the drug addicts, who enjoy setting fires for the fun of it. Even her best friend Joanne moves on to find more with her life. Octavia I feel reveals untrustworthy family and friends, which I completely agree with. In the end of it all Lauren finds herself a new family. Once or twice in the story I …show more content…
Am I hallucinating, or is this some trick.” He stepped back raising his forehead as though trying to stop the tears from falling out of his eyes.
I stepped closer to him, taking a leap, of faith even though I didn’t know him his presence wrapped me up like an envelope, not to tight not to lose, it made me feel comfortable even happy to be near him. The first thought to make way into my head was to leave because you don’t hug strangers, you don’t feel compassion for those you don’t know. My instincts took over and I wrapped my arms around him, breathing in his sent of mixed seasons, like being in a room with pumpkins and vanilla and a whole bucket load of other amazing scented items.
At last he rapped his arms around me and cried until his tears ran out, until he couldn’t gulp enough oxygen in his lungs without coughing it back up. “You aren’t real, your dead, your brother. Your sister, your mom and dad, even your uncle.” Dropping my I head I let a single tear escape, how could my whole family be dead, they were all that I had all I could have in the future. Family was the most important thing is the world to me, and now they were gone. In the blink of an eye they were