Reading Octivia Butler's stories were about made-up science fiction problems with real world prognosis's as the root for their problems. The situations that Octivia Butler presents are not far from what we could experience. She presents issues that appear real and tell a story on how her characters deal with those issues. By doing this it makes us think about how we would deal with the same situations if it presented itself.
In Butler's story "The Evening, the Morning, and the Night" we learned about a concept of suicidal tendency with self mutilation implicated with it. Although this would be a horrible way to die or to live knowing you would die this way. I believe Butler uses this to show how we deal with abnormal people on a daily basis and how tunneling their imperfections can prove to help them with their disease.
In "Speech Sounds" We saw how real world scenarios would deal with the loss of Speech or literacy characteristics. Although it would be hard to imagine life without either one it would cause us to utilize other senses more. Life would definitely be more difficult because of the loss of one of these things. But i think it would be easier to have never had than to loss something we have been accustomed to having. It easier to learn how not to use something that you once had rather than to lose something you have been dependent on for your entire life.
Scott Swan
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