Bloodchild By Octavia Butler Sparknotes

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Bloodchild by Octavia Butler Bloodchild is one of the best science fiction stories in history. The novel was written by an American writer, Octavia Butler. This book was first published in 1984 and edited in 2005 where two stories; Amnesty and Book of Martha were added. Blood child has been a famous novel and it has won several awards such as Science Fiction Award in 1984 (Butler, 1984). The novel Bloodchild generally describes the unusual bond between a human being who has escaped from the earth and invaded the planet of insect-like alien species called the Tilac. This paper thus aims to explore how the information from the novel, "Bloodchild" is related to the real-life situation by looking and analyzing different themes. The story in the novel Bloodchild by Olivia Butler is given by a teenage boy by the name Gan whom it was his time to carry the eggs of an alien by the name T'Gatoi. After human beings settled in Tlic planet, and Tlic identified that humans were making excellent host in their eggs, …show more content…

The writer in her novel wanted to express the fear that people have from being invaded by parasitic worms and she also wanted to write about men being pregnant. The dominating species are forcing the minority human beings to carry their eggs in an abnormal relationship between two different species. Male human beings are carrying these alien eggs out of their will and others sacrifice because of their family. For instance, Gan accepted to be impregnated because a leader female species had proposed Gan to give out her lovely sister to be impregnated instead of him. This act of impregnating men is a form of sexual exploitation is being experienced in different parts of the world. Many women in different cultures have been suffering from sexual exploitation for many decades where they are being forced to comply with different oppressions from men out of their

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