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{Blog 3} Book Suppression

​A rare gem exists deep in the catacombs of the ancient mountainous jungles of literature. Octavia Butler is that rare gem that exists. Never in my life have I ever thought a woman would ever write about science fiction before. Most of the time, people who write science fiction are men who share an affinity for science-themed stories. And to top all of that, Butler is a black woman who certainly shares that same affinity. It’s only exclusively rare to find a black woman writing science fiction out of the seven billion humans that inhabit this planet. In her most compelling and heartwarming novel yet, Butler effectively demonstrates how to fuse time travel and slavery together. In Kindred, the main protagonist Dana, a black woman from the 70s, discovers she has time manipulation and time skipping abilities. She ends up in the past to the antebellum South, where slavery runs as the social norm in pre-Civil War America. Dana saves Rufus, a spunky red-haired white boy who happens to be the son of a slave master. The revelation comes forward as Dana finds out Rufus is her ancestor, and that she has been chosen to repeatedly save Rufus from death throughout his entire life each time she returns to the past and back until Rufus becomes a father to her great-grandmother. A series of tragic events and historical tales evolve around this story. Octavia Butler’s story has made itself in the chronicles of black American literature and developed a new era of how literature overall is presented. Men shouldn’t be the only ones who can write outstanding tales about time and space. People like Octavia Butler are the prime example of breaking the norms of writing science fiction and developing literature that’s both empowering and original.

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9 Aug 2014

POST #1

Started this simply because I enjoy writing, to an extent, also I want to do it more for personal gain, and not to mention it could help in the long run with school and my future career.

I could start out by saying that my name is Ariel and I am 19 years old. I live in North Carolina currently, where I attend a community college and I will then transfer on to a university and continue my path onto receiving my degree in Forensic Science.

At this point in my life, I would say I want to be out of this town and away from these people, for many reasons. This town is stuck; everyone is going nowhere fast and people are concrete in their ways and the way the think, and really that's one of the things I hate most. People that stray from letting others have their own voice and making their own choices, people that simply are too close-minded for anyone's own good. Aside from that, I want to explore different parts of this country that we (Americans and immigrants) live in. I need to find myself more than anything, I feel that's where I struggle most. I need people who get me, people with the same interests, needs, and wants. I need to be out of my comfort-zone, because that's where you truly find yourself. In the end, I want to be something. I want to show people what I have accomplished, because I'm better than that, better than letting myself be compared to people that have gone nowhere in life.