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Earthseed In Octavia Butler's Parable Of Sower
The author of Parable of Sower, Octavia Butler demonstrates in her novel that all of the people

have freedom to believe in different religions because everybody has a different perspective

with life. From Lauren

and poor people dying from bad situations, she rejects traditional religion. God stopped being

her God because she couldn

instead, she created her own religion called Earthseed and she observe that everything in the

universe changes. The idea of Earthseed is the present and the future, the living and the

changes of God. Lauren believes that by shaping themselves they can help themselves. Her

new beliefs helps her community and attract other people to her. Even though not all of the

people agree with her beliefs like

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