Octavia Butler

I like Octavia Butler's stories in the sense that they make you think about how the world would be if certain epidemics broke out. For example "Speech Sounds" got me thinking about what would be worse, to lose your ability to read and write or to not be able to talk. Reading the story it was a little hard for me to fully believe what she was talking about could actually happen. I agree that the world would be in alot of chaos if this actually happened but i think that with our technology and knowledge we could find a practical solution to this problem. I also wasn't buying into it partially because of the fact that i dont think it would ever happen, although that could be me being not open minded. If it did happen though, i would pick to still be able to speak. I feel that through verbal communication there is alot more said than just they words you are saying as opposed to reading words on paper where you arent quite sure how to interpret them.

Her other story "The Evening and the Morning and the Night" also made me think, although i feel that she just took the idea from the book "I am Legend" and put a slight twist on it. If this really happened in our world today, i feel that there would be alot of treatment centers like the one in the book and research to what causes the disease, because after all it is in your genes because it is passed on genetically. I do not know if i would have a kid and risk giving him the disease. I guess i would have to know the chances that he got the disease and then i would have to ask myself if i would want to be born with that disease. I think my decesion to have a kid would be based on the current treatment and centers for people who have the disease.