Bloodchild by Octavia E. Butler - Week 12 Response/Assessment
"Bloodchild" by Octavia E. Butler Week 12 Response/Assessment 1. What is your reaction to the text you just read? While reading this I felt very unnerving. I was very confused most of the read about what was exactly going on. The text has many uncomfortable things and phrases in it. There is a lot of talk about eggs, grub, and killing of animals. The animals I found out to be humans I think. It seems that most of the characters are evolutions of humans that are changed by a species that uses the human body as a host. There is this mother character, T'Gatoi who I believe isn't a human but was one of these "alien" species from birth. Most of the time she is trying to get her son, Gan to take her egg to birth "young" I believe. I may have interpreted some things wrong but I was kind of a hard story to follow. 2. What connections did you make with the story you read? Discuss the elements of the work with which you were able to connect?