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1. Clausen, Daniel D. “Cli-Fi Georgic and Grassroots Mutual Aid in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower.” Western American Literature, vol. 56 no. 3, 2021, p. 269-286. Project MUSE, https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2021.0040.
2. MLA. Lowry, Lois, author. The Giver. Boston, Massachusetts :Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
3. Noyce, Phillip, director. The Giver. The Weinstein Company, 2014, https://archive.org/details/the-giver. Accessed 16 Nov. 2023. 
4. Butler, Octavia E. Parable of the Sower. New York :Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993.
5. Hintz, Carrie, et al. Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults: Brave New Teenagers. Routledge, 2015. 
6. Dubey, Madhu. “Folk and urban communities in African-American women’s fiction: Octavia Butler’s Parable of the sower.” Studies in American Fiction, vol. 27, no. 1, 16 Nov. 1999, https://doi.org/10.1353/saf.1999.0017. 
7. Moreno, Micah. “Survival by any means: Race and gender, passing and performance in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and parable of the talents.” Human Contradictions in Octavia E. Butler’s Work, 22 Nov. 2020, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46625-1_11. 
8. Lea, Susan G. “Seeing beyond sameness: Using the giver to challenge colorblind ideology.” Children’s Literature in Education, vol. 37, no. 1, 2006, pp. 51–67, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-005-9454-2. 
9. Arnone, Chris M. “Why Are Dystopian Books So White?” Book Riot, 6 July 2023, https://bookriot.com/why-are-dystopian-books-so-white/. Accessed 16 Nov. 2023. 

   My research process was fairly simple. First, I came up with a question that would be the basis of my paper. Afterward, I took out keywords and put them into Google, Google Scholar, and the Hunter Library website. For the articles within books that I would need to buy I went to zlibrary and found a copy of the book and highlighted the section I would need for later. After collecting all the articles I wanted to use, I researched the authors to evaluate how reputable their works were. I discarded the ones not made by established authors and/or from questionable origins. (ex. Personal blog posts). Finally, I downloaded the PDFs of my sources and sorted them into folders, one for articles related to The Giver, one for Parable of the Sower, and one for general YA fiction.

 Research question:

What are some ways in which Hyperempathy is shown through the Novel ? How does laurens perspective on her hyperempathy change throughout the novel?

       My research question has changed after  doing further research. My initial question was more  historical  and sociological than English . My new question focused on  Hyper empathy and how it plays a role both in the book and Lauren’s life . For my research question I was able to select a few articles that I believe have some good discussions  on the Topic of hyperempathy in Butler’s novel. For my research question  I want to Discuss  how hyper empathy  was used throughout the novel . What role did the hyperempathy play in the novel? How was Lauren’s character able to use hyper empathy to her advantage . How was she influenced by her hyperempathy?

Butler, Octavia E. Parable of the Sower. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993.

Sources :

Bailey, M., & Jamieson, A. A. H. (2017). Guest Editors’ Introduction: Palimpsests in the Life and Work of Octavia E. Butler. Palimpsest (Albany, N.Y.), 6(2), V–225.

; Guest Editors’ Introduction: Palimpsests in the Life and Work of Octavia E. Butler

Blazan, S. (2022). “Something Beyond Pain”: Race, Gender, and Hyperempathy in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. Gender Forum, 82, 34–34.

; “Something Beyond Pain”: Race, Gender, and Hyperempathy in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower

Leong, D. (2016). The Mattering of Black Lives: Octavia Butler’s Hyperempathy and the Promise of the New Materialisms. Catalyst (San Diego, Calif.), 2(2), 1–35. https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v2i2.28799

Stark, D. (2020). A More Realistic View: Reimagining Sympoietic Practice in Octavia Butler’s Parables. Extrapolation, 61(1–2), 151–172. https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2020.10

Phillips, Jerry. “The Intuition of the Future: Utopia and Catastrophe in Octavia Butler’s ‘Parable of the Sower.’” NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, vol. 35, no. 2/3, 2002, pp. 299–311.https://www.jstor.org/stable/1346188

McIntyre, Vonda N., et al. “Reflections on Octavia E. Butler.” Science Fiction Studies, vol. 37, no. 3, 2010, pp. 433–42. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25746443

Butler, Octavia E. Parable of the Sower. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993.

Ghosh, Amitav. Hungry Tide. HARPERCOLLINS Publishers, 2017. 

Lerner, Ben. 10:04: A Novel. Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. 

Lloyd, Vincent. “Post-Racial, Post-Apocalyptic Love: Octavia Butler as Political Theologian.” Political Theology: The Journal of Christian Socialism, vol. 17, no. 5, 2016, pp. 449–64, https://doi.org/10.1080/1462317X.2016.1211296.

Parrinder, Patrick. “Science Fiction as Romance.” Science Fiction, Routledge, 2003, pp. 68–87, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315015965-11.

Shu-ching Chen. “Fear and Love in the Tide Country: Affect, Environment, and Encounters in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide.” Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, vol. 44, no. 2, 2018, pp. 081–114, https://doi.org/10.6240/concentric.lit.201809_44(2).0004.

Taylor, Jesse Oak. “The Novel after Nature, Nature after the Novel: Richard Jefferies’s Anthropocene Romance.” Studies in the Novel, vol. 50, no. 1, 2018, pp. 108–33, https://doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2018.0006.

Walker, Lisa. “Polar Bears and Evil Scientists: Romance, Comedy and Climate Change.” The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 3, no. 3, 2014, pp. 363–74, https://doi.org/10.1386/ajpc.3.3.363_1.

I started my research by using the hunter library OneSearch to search for romance in Parable of the Sower, there were very few articles written about this topic. So, I expanded my search and decided to start with why authors included romance in cli-fi and searched for romance in cli-fi and found this article that talks about cli-fi as a form of romance. Then I went back to narrowing my research question to focus on the books we have read. Since I couldn’t find much about romance in the Parable of the Sower, I changed the keyword romance to love and found more articles, still less but manageable. I then moved on to find romance or love in The Hungry Tide, and compared to the Parable of the Sower, I was able to find more articles. I found nothing written about romance or love in 10:04 yet, so I plan on just discussing examples from the book. Overall, it was difficult to research, and I had to tweak my research question to make it much easier to find sources.

How does the Parable of the Sower show how a postapocalyptic event controls the way people deal with religion, integration ,and survival?

Bibliography :

( Butler, Octavia E. Parable of the Sower: The New York Times Bestseller. Hachette UK, 2014)

Agusti, C. (2005). The relationship between community and subjectivity in Octavia E. Butler’s “Parable of the Sower.” Extrapolation, 46(3), 351–359. https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2005.46.3.7

Katopodis, C. (2023). Teaching for a Habitable Future with Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower: We’ll Have to Seed Ourselves Farther and Farther from This Dying Place. English Language Notes, 61(1), 77–94. https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-10293184

Grecca, G. B. (2021). ‘A racist challenge might force us apart’: divergence, reliance and empathy in Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler. Ilha Do Desterro, 74(1), 347–362. https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2021.e73535

Guerrero, P. B. (2021). Post-Apocalyptic Memory Sites: Damaged Space, Nostalgia, and Refuge in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. Science-Fiction Studies, 48(1), 29-. https://doi.org/10.5621/sciefictstud.48.1.0029

Achachelooei, E. M., & Leon, C. E. (2021). The Past and “Discontinuity in Religion” in Octavia Butler’s Parables: A Feminist Theological Perspective. Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association), 68(2), 120–137. https://doi.org/10.1080/20512856.2021.1935492

I recently changed my question because my last question was too broad. My new question is How does the Parable of the Sower show how a postapocalyptic event controls the way people deal with religion, integration ,and survival. I was able to look for 5 articles and selected those 5 specific ones.  Octavia Butler’s, Parable of the Sower shows Lauren’s resilience and her leadership at such a young age. With my question, I want to thoroughly discuss a post-apocalyptic event. How do people call for survival and what steps shall they take? In this Novel they were fighting people, getting away from arsonists who were causing severe damage to the community. She brought up her earthseed religion which caused her to believe that “God is change”. Using all the articles that I chose as resources, I believe that they will be very beneficial in the process of my writing. Even though a dystopian era is considered  very damaging and negative, I wanted to focus on integration. How did people unite during these times and how did they use religion to form unity. I sensed that the original question was much broader but I made some corrections and I’m hoping that this helps with my essay writing.

Bergthaller, Hannes. “Cli-Fi and Petrofiction: Questioning Genre in the Anthropocene” Amerikastudien/American studies, Vol. 62, No. 1 (2017), pp. 120-125 https://www.jstor.org/stable/44982310

Clarke, Jim. “Reading Climate Change in J.G. Ballard” Critical Survey, Vol. 25, No. 2 (2013) pp. 7-21 https://www.jstor.org/stable/42751031

Adeline, Johns Putra. “Climate change in literature and literary studies: From cli-fi, climate change theater and ecopoetry to ecocriticism and climate change criticism” https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.385

Rong, Mingcan. “Climate Fiction:A Promising Way of Communicating Climate Change with the General Public.” Studies in Social & Humanities, Vol. 2 No.2(2023)

My question has changed a bit. I felt like because I am new to this genre I should try and do a deeper dive into what the genre is and how it changed the view of Climate change. It was a bit hard to find the articles because I honestly couldn’t just look for them as easily as I would’ve liked to but looking and searching through for the articles helped me find question which was odd. My new question is how has the genre of Cli-Fi effected the way the world sees Climate Change.