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Quotes For Eugenics

He had to have the woman. She was wild seed of the best kind. She would strengthen any line he bred her into, strengthened it immeasurably.

Wild Seed page 15.

“He had to have the woman. She was wild seed of the best kind. She would strengthen any line he bred her into, strengthened it immeasurably.” pg.15Wild Seed

Strong Black Female Protagonist

Anyanwu had too much power. In spite of Doro’s fascination with her, his first inclination was to kill her. He was not in the habit of keeping alive people he could not control absolutely. (...) In her dolphin form, and before that in her leopard form, Doro had discovered that his mind could not find her.

Wild Seed page 88-89.

Anyanwu had too much power. In spite of Doro’s fascination with her, his first inclination was to kill her. He was not in the habit of keeping alive people he could not control absolutely. (...) In her dolphin form, and before that in her leopard form, Doro had discovered that his mind could not find her. Wild Seed page 88-89

Research Assignment #2

Lynn, E “Vampires Aliens, and Dodos,”

• Novel describes what it means to be human. T
• Both characters Butler portrays to be very different.
• Elizabeth Lynn goes specific powers that are listed in Wild Seed.
• To Doro’s people he is a lord to them and his presences is to breed special gifted individuals with various powers.

Lynn tells us that although Doro is a bad mutant person, he heavy largely due to his power. He didnt choose to be born in rather keep his powers".

Pfeiffer, “Octavia Estelle Butler"

• the character’s struggles doesn't have to do with race black vs whites but men vs. women.
• Pfeiffer goes and talks about Doro’s long life and his ability to read Anyanwu skills set

• Doro's for ever last life is statement that has the death of other people for him to stay alive.

Pfeiffer says Doro must kill to survive and will die when he loses, Pfeiffer tells us that Doro does not have a choice in whether to kill or not.

Bishop. M. “Wild Seed,”

• One of the oldest love stories around.
• Goes through human conflicts of obligation and need.
• Humanity of two near immortals

Bishop explains A love story but one in which love is comes with betrayal, threat, and harmful only to quickly control itself confirmed in Anyanwu’s feeling of pensive sadness acceptance of Doro’s inhuman nature.”

Connections, Links, and Extended Networks: Patterns in Octavia Butler's Science Fiction

• She wrote 4-5 books about power struggles
• Main power struggle between Doro and Anyanwu
• Doro Breeding people to look for immortal companion.
• Anyanwu resists him and when she threatens to kill herself, he is force to change.
• Black characters used in science fiction, which is very rare.

" Govan, Sandra Y. "Connections, links, and Extended Networks: patterns in Octavia Butler's Science Ficton." black American Literature Forum 18.2 (summer 1984): 82-84.

Octavia Butler and the Black Science-Fiction Heroine

• A new scenario, featuring strong female protagonists, who shape the course of social events.

• This situations women are confronted by involving a dynamic interplay of race and sex in futuristic worlds.
• Butler views herself an exciting new voice in the traditional domains of science fiction, feminism, and black literature.

• White males take significant role whether playing bad guys as enemies or sometimes just foils to the women.

Salvaggio, Ruth. "Octavia Butler and the Black Science-Fiction Heroine."Black American Literature Forum 18.2 (1984): 78-80. Web.

Homage to Tradition: Octavia Butler Renovates the Historical Novel

• Octavia Butler is unique and skilled writer
• Kindred and Wild Seed connect and relate to one another
• Each narrative story begins a historical time period

Govan, Sandra Y. "Homage to Tradition: Octavia Butler Renovates the Historical Novel." Melus 13.1/2 (1986): 79-88. Web.

L. Timmel Duchamp "Sun Woman" or "Wild Seed"

• Novelists of Octavia E. Buder's stature make a posthumous impact on the world in two ways.
• Most obviously and visibly, their work continues to affect readers and critics who are moved by the power and brilliance that the work persuades to show ensuring that the world's engagement with the work continues long after the writer has left the world.
• I believe that Wild Seed works as a model for how to write overtly political fiction

• Anyanwu, by contrast, is grounded in the body. While Doro is a spirit that wears flesh, Anyanwu's flesh can change itself.

"Equating freedom with sovereignty, the Western tradition since Plato, argues Arendt, has held plurality to be a "weakness," at best an indication of our unfortunate dependence on others, which we should strive to overcome."

Rebecca J. Holden "Impact of Octavia Butler's Early Work"

• A woman, scholar, teacher, graduate student, and person with insulin-dependent diabetes.
• She writes the struggle between the two main characters a man and a woman sounded "like a typical love plot in some ways,"
• the female protagonist's "power and her will and the circumstances of the story add many new twists and dimensions 
• Talks about allows feminists of all types to take advantage of scientific technologies to make partial but potent connections with each other-what she calls "potent fusions and dangerous possibilities".

"I began writing about power because 1 had so little" The Impact of Octavia Butler's Early Work on Feminist Science Fiction as a Whole (and on One Feminist Science Fiction Scholar in Particular)"

Research assignment #5

Gerry Canavan Bred to Be Superhuman: Comic Books and Afrofuturism in Octavia Butler's Patternist Series,”

• Doro's experiments liberate in general nor black people in particular; instead, they culmmate III an even more totalizing domination by an even more elite a state of affairs to which any resistance seems utterly ImpossIble.
• This article rereads the Patternist fantasy and its place in Butler's by way of an autobiographical detail that has also been frequently overlooked: her devoted comics fandom as a young woman..

• Butler's own autobiographical descriptions of her origins as an sf writer typically begin with her viewing of a black-and-white B-movie Devil Girl from Mars "what she means is that she does not write about good-that she thinks people "doing the kinds of things people do"

Wild Seed, Chapters 11- "Epilogue."

Chapter 11 talks about how Doro at times misses Anyanwu at somewhat. In the beginning of the chapter explains there was old man name Edward Warrick. With the past century, he was the third human in which Doro had found himself drawn toward with the feeling that he was near Anyanwu, and also bringing remembers how the old man had lived in Avoyelles Parish state of Louisiana for years, his neighbors told Doro. He had married daughters, but no sons which made Doro think he was feeling Anyanwu presence. Then later on the chapters Doro explains how he would sometimes misses Anyanwu of way she was but won't commit that she would be alive. Chapter 12 explains Anyanwu was afraid of plantation basically how a body would be quick to change. also how her group where she never watched a group like her own break apart. She did not know whether there had ever before been a group like her own. Then later on the chapter Anyanwu would find herself alone and debting whether she would buy the plantation in which she did. Chapter 13 talks how Doro returned a month after Joseph Toler's grisly corpse had been buried in the weed in which it been a slaves graveyard, and Stephen Ifeyinwa Mgbada had been buried in ground that had once been set with the Master and also the family. Also how no one else would be buried as a slave since Anyanwu bought the plantation. Chapter 14 describes how doro so powerful in which he wanst afraid of Anyanwu in fact that he could of kill her if he wanted to in life form body of hers. Also He destroyed anyone who showed the potential, the strength to someday read or control his thoughts. Epilogue talks about how Doro and Anyanwu could not have and want also explains how He did not command her any longer and she was no longer one of his breeders, nor even one of his people in a owner way.

Wild Seed, Chapters 7-10"

Chapter 7 talks about how one of Doro's favorite sons Isaac. who slender and youthful man of his age and with his gray hair, had no official authority to settle disputes. Also he was a farmer and a merchant with people tend to disagree with him about his age, which made him powerful and intelligent. But later people tend to compare and contrast difference of Doro and Isaac but in the end people liked more Isaac than Doro since he had a lot of power. Chapter 8 explains Nweke Anyanwu daughter who seem with sickness or her mother explain to Doro a "Transition". its like Doro knew what was going on and wanted to stay see what would happen next. what turns out to be Nweke was nightmare picking up tortures from other girls of making love and knowing what happens during the time. Chapter 9 was Transition completely in which Doro was calmly collected knowing that all Anyanwu were to strong including Nweke so Doro was basically be patient and cool. Back then Doro's experience with transition had taught him the danger of weakness in which reminded about his childhood how he was really weak, sick and later able to survive. Chapter 10 talks about how Anyanwu was young restoring her nearly destroyed body, in which she return to form when she look liek more little girl mourning to her grandfather. Basically showed how Anyanwu was in your pastime.

Wild Seed, Chapters 5-6" 

Chapter 5 is about a Okoye who had a sickness who stayed under doro’s cabin while Anyanwu was taking care of him in the meantime he gets healed up. When Okoye healed up Doro send had send him back to the slaves, right before Anyanwu introduced okoye to a girl whose name is Undenkwo, who tended to occupy half of her time by herself in which Okoye looked interested to meet her there was some sort of chemistry between Okoye and,Undenkwo that made them want each other more than ever like Anyanwu needed Doro, they were both feeling beyond vulnerable and very much alone. When Doro brought Okoye to the upper deck of the ship a few days later to tell him that the ship captain had the authority to perform a marriage ceremony on behalf of the white man Woodley in whom if Okoye wanted to marry he would have needed to pledge himself onto a priest or a man of the authority. Okoye was undecided whether to pledge because Doro kept forcing Okoye to do things he didn’t want to just because he is slave and thinks that he can demand him all the time. 

Chapter 6 summarizes how Anyanwu has to much power in which Doro cant take her body because how he could take control her longevity would not help him keep her body alive. Also In own to take her body Doro needs to kill her but can't because how she's a dolphin with special abilities that wouldn't fit perfectly in new body which Doro would proclaim. But in the end Anyanwu doesn't know her abilities in which Doro knows and hints it as secret so she won't know.

"Wild Seed, Chapters 1-4"

In this story "Wild Seed" chapters 1-4 is based on a women named Anyanwu who has been living hidden from the people around her because she soon had discovered that she was immortal and didn't want people to know. She started letting her self age meanwhile everyone around her was aging and dying Anyanwu was only getting younger. Throughout the story Anyanwu thought that she couldn't meet anybody that was exactly like her until Doro showed up. Anyanwu is afraid of Doro because she was curious to find out how he found out about her without nobody telling him who she was and where she lived. More into the story, Doro starts to become amoral and cruel when he starts to try and convince Anyanwu to move with him to America and marry him so they can give immortal children therefore, it freaked Anyanwu out. What made her really afraid of Doro was when he told her that he needed to jump body to body which allowed him to live on forever. Anyanwu starts to feel overwhelmed by the difference between her culture and the american culture. However, Doro starts to control her and forces her to marry one of his sons Issac so they can also have immortal children. Anyanwu struggles day in and day out to figure out what to do with somebody that's immortal and nobody knows about it but her and Doro who tries to control her and just never lets her be by herself.

Butler, O.E. "Birth Of A Writer." Essence (Essence) 20.1 (1989): 74. Academic Search Complete. Web. 21 Sept. 2015.

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Journal entry 1

what i learned today in class was how to do citations, and also about editing wikipedia.

Journal entry #3

today we spoke about about summarizing, paraphrasing, Quoting a text. Summary is condenses ideas of present a broad of information, basically explains what happens in the summary Paraphrase is basically rephrasing what the sentences is talking about. Quotation is part of the sentence which you have to explains what it means.

Journal entry #4

what i learned today is to make suggestions of how to edit Wild Seed like making a few adjustments like comparing with similarities with Kindred . And also exploring Wikipedia novels looking such as Themes and characters.

Journal entry # 5

What i learned today was doing the bullet points on research assignments, talking and writing about the articles, also explaining what each article are about.

Journal entry #6

Today in class English 103 we added more things to research Assignment 3 and also starting to Research Assignment 4 by reading the articles and summarizing them

Journal entry #7

In English 103 we spoke in groups about Vote on the importance of themes using and also reviewing about research Proposal essay assignment.

Journal entry #8

Today in English 103 we work on different aspects of the articles working different groups.