Change is inevitable and what many people do not understand is that our environment changes as well. Many may not realized it, but our actions do affect our planet and the weather. There is ample amount of proof that due to our environmental choices our Earth is changing, along with weathers patterns. Our stubborn ways is creating many terrible choices and harming the harming the future of our planet and our nation’s government. The novel, “Parable of the Sower”, by Octavia E. Butler is set just 9 years from now in California. Butler’s setting of California is a harsh and scary one, with the changes in the climates, governments falling apart, communities in ruins, and drugs and prostitution ruling many lives. These changes that are taking place is quite nerve racking because a lot of these changes are happening now in reality. In the story, our protagonist, Lauren, who is the daughter of Reverend Olamina, …show more content…
Anything is possible, if we decide not to change and continue to use our natural resources and polluting the air and the land. Our earth can give up on us as we did to it, or it could possibly take the land back altogether including the wild animals. “I’ve read books about them being intelligent, loyal pets, but that's all in the past. Dogs now are wild animals who will eat a baby if they can.” (Butler, Chapter 17) I would hope though that if our world were to come into a crisis, that our nation, (“nation is a people who share a collective identity based on a common culture, language, territorial base, and history.”) (Haviland, Prins, McBride, Walrath, Pg. 274) would be more united as a whole and be able to correct our errors before turning into thieves, prostitutes, and murderers. “It looked so peaceful, and yet people out there were trying to kill each other, and no doubt succeeding. Strange how normal it’s become for us to lie on the ground and listen while nearby, people try to kill each other.” (Butler, Chapter