Bloodchild By Octavia Butler Sparknotes

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,

they had to protect their eggs and by doing so, they required human beings to choose a child for implantation (Butler, 1984). Therefore, Gan who is narrating the story had been selected by the lead female when he was born to carry T'Gatoi's eggs. Gan was later impregnated by the T'Gatoi out of his willing.
From an overview of the story above, Butler has presented unusual things that rarely happen in our society.

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

will.
Additionally, the issue of slavery is being revealed in this story from the novel of Butler. The human race is made slaves by the dominating race of alien species. In most societies, minority groups normally undergo different types of oppression and treated like slaves. This is evident even today in most countries such as the United States of America. Black Americans are being mistreated as slaves because they are minority especially the black females. Furthermore, the writer also wanted to explore the impact of space exploitation. Due to scientific advancement, many countries are now investing in space science. Human beings should be more careful with their space activities because it might have serious consequences considering the fact that there are species that colonize those planets.
As seen from the analysis of the novel, the author Octavia Butler was providing crucial information about our contemporary world using science fiction. Using characters such as alien insects, worms and the picture created by male human beings being impregnated by alien insects so that they can carry their eggs which when hatched might start digesting their internal organs is very scary. Therefore, when human beings of all races read and synthesize the themes of this novel, they may change their behavior and habits in different ways. Octavia Butler was providing real-life situations using scientific fictions.