However, the story reveals dystopian features, which means that the story did not happen on earth. Critically, the attention of the reader digresses away from the dystopian nature of the story by temporarily making the story human and appealingly earthy. This occurred when they ought to have gone to slavery. T’Gatoi shows that the story is taking place in space by saying that the ancestors of the humans survived after rescue by the creatures from space.
However, the twist in the story occurs when the reader discovers that the story does not happen on earth. The growth of human being also shows a social feature of the story.
The story goes ahead to show human activities like the rights of passage. This means that the author is a mature person. Bloodchild starts by showing that it is a story from an adult by saying that the last night of childhood began with a journey home (Frances 246). However, the story juxtaposes its own theme by deviating from the activities taking place in space to talk about normal human activities. The story is a dystopian story that shows the human perceptions of space and the view of the author that the things that happen in space resemble the activities on earth (Butler 4). This paper critically analyzes the story Bloodchild by Octavia Butler showing various elements of the short story that changed the view of the readers in the story. The story happens in space as the characters say that the humans had ancestors saved by the ancient people living on the land. However, the author uses many twists in the story showing that the human beings had many civilization weaknesses that needed address. The humans mainly function as birthing vessels, displaying many elements of western civilization and scientific fiction by the author. The story, Bloodchild, represents a scientific fiction story that shows human beings isolated in a hysterical world.
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