"Parable of the Sower is the Butlerian odyssey of one woman who is twice as feeling in a world that has become doubly dehumanized. The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers and roaming bands of people addicted to a drug that activates an orgasmic desire to burn, rape, and murder. When one small community is overrun, Lauren Olamina, an 18 year old black woman...

A Study Guide for Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

Jesus said in Mark 4:13 - "And He (Jesus) said to them (the disciples), 'Do you not understand this parable? How will you understand all the parables?'" Is Jesus suggesting that the understanding of this parable was necessary for the understanding of all that He was teaching? This book provides for an understanding of the Parable of the Sower and, also, a means for understanding the Gospels/Acts based on the thematic context of that parable. The themes...

Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned across the years to save him. After this first summons, Dana is drawn back, again and again, to the plantation to protect Rufus and ensure that he will grow to manhood and father...

Originally published in 1998, this shockingly prescient novel's timely message of hope and resistance in the face of fanaticism is more relevant than ever. In 2032, Lauren Olamina has survived the destruction of her home and family, and realized her vision of a peaceful community in northern California based on her newly founded faith, Earthseed. The fledgling community provides refuge for outcasts facing persecution after the election of an ultra-conservative...

Jesus taught in parables or stories with important moral lessons hidden in them. In this book, you will read about three parables: the parable of the good samaritan, the parable of the sower, and the parable of the mustard seed. What lessons did you learn from them? Don't forget to answer the guide questions after each parable to test your understanding.

Are you sowing seeds to the flesh or seeds of the Spirit that will reap eternal life?"For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God." - 1 Peter 1:23Scripture says that all flesh is like grass and the things of this world and its kingdom will fade away.Are you trying to live in both kingdoms - this earthly temporary one, AND the everlasting eternal one at the same time?What is...

Of the 30 parables Jesus told, the one that gets the most space on God's sacred pages is the story about the sower, the seed, and the soil (Matthew 13). Just like a farmer isn't sowing seed to get rid of it, God never brings you into contact with his Word just to get it over with. Rather, just as a farmer wants fruit, God wants to help you to experience and exhibit peace, joy, love, and more. And while he certainly could make our behavior one hundred...

This booklet provides a teacher's guide for study of the book And How Shall You Know All Parables. This book provides for an understanding of the Parable of the Sower and also, a means for understanding the gospels/Acts based on the thematic context of that parable. This leads to a deeper understanding of the gospels/Acts and for a clearer insight into how these scriptures apply to everyday life. The teacher's guide provides a twenty-session study...