American Literature - Honors
Summer Reading Requirements
Read the novel Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. Take handwritten notes that summarize and analyze significant points, characters, conflicts, motifs, themes, etc. These notes will be collected and may be used on assessments.
Parable of the Sower
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Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding social chaos and anarchy caused by climate change and economic crisis. In a society where any vulnerability is a risk, she suffers from hyper empathy--a debilitating sensitivity to others' emotions. Precocious and clear-eyed, Lauren must make her voice heard in order to protect her loved ones from the imminent disasters her small community stubbornly ignores. But what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: the birth of a new faith . . . and a startling vision of human destiny.
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