The Parable of the Sower: Crash Course Literature #406
This week, John is teaching you about the near-future dystopia in Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower. Parable of the Sower tells the story of Lauren Oya Olamina, and her life growing up...
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Hi I’m John Green, this is Crash Course Literature and I have some bad news. Disease is devastating the planet. Soon the global food supply will be compromised, clean water will become scarce, violence will grow epidemic, dangerous new street drugs will circulate, the income gap will increase, corporate slavery will return and a strongman president will be more interested in issuing tough-guy slogans than actually improving the lives of the people. Of course none of that’s happened yet. What’s that? Oh, Stan informs me that some of it has happened. But the only place it’s all happening, so far, is in “Parable of the Sower,” Octavia Butler’s 1993 science fiction novel. It’s just made up. Thankfully. But jeez, I have never read a dystopia th...
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Hi I’m John Green, this is Crash Course Literature and I have some bad news. Disease is devastating the planet. Soon the global food supply will be compromised, clean water will become scarce, violence will grow epidemic, dangerous new street drugs will circulate, the income gap will increase, corporate slavery will return and a strongman president will be more interested in issuing tough-guy slogans than actually improving the lives of the people. Of course none of that’s happened yet. What’s that? Oh, Stan informs me that some of it has happened. But the only place it’s all happening, so far, is in “Parable of the Sower,” Octavia Butler’s 1993 science fiction novel. It’s just made up. Thankfully. But jeez, I have never read a dystopia th...
