Feminist Power In The Parable Of The Sower

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The parable of the sower is a book that could not be put in just one category for sure. It’s a book that covers a lot of different genres. One of these genres is feminist politics. This book has a heroine. A young girl that changed a lot of people’s view and helped them to realize that the world is not what they think is and showed them how to see the truth and so survive the messy world that they are in. This book is a feminist book because it tries to show the power of the women. It tries to show women can be as strong as men in hard situations. Butler wants to everyone knows that women could make good decisions too and they are able to do that without anyones help. She made Lauren a leader, an intelegent woman to change the people’s view about women, specially on her time.
Lauren Olamina is not a normal teenager. She’s way much more mature than other kids her age. While all the other kids her age are just focusing on …show more content…

Butlure tried to show that society should look at women differently. Women can be mature, intelligent leaders. While all the men in their community freaked out and all end up dead, a women was the only one who could run away. Harry and Zahra run away too, but their case was just mostly luck. None of them were ready for this situation, but Lauren was and she also had her emergency pack.
Parable of the sower is a book that wants to show the power of women, how they can be leaders in hard time. It wants to show how a young woman could be right and others should listen to her. People of Lauren’s community didn’t listen to her, when she suggest to her father to tell everyone to make a emergency pack he didn’t take her seriously. Maybe if they did listen to her a lot more of them would stay

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