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Entry #1

March 6, 2015

Today i learned basic things about a useful and very important website for everybody that is Wikipedia. Now i really can help myself or anybody that really needs an article. Also i learned to create my own account on Wikipedia which is going to help me through the whole semester. Also i learned that we can edit and interact with my classmates or other Wikipedians about a particular article but not we cant argue or take a side, we need to be neutral. And lastly i learned to make a citation taking it from any source and post it on Wikipedia.

the encyclopedia of science fiction

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My impression on Octavia Butler

Octavia Butler was not a common person in her family, friends, neighborhood, etc. She had a an amazing willpower to achieve what she wanted to do, or do what she loved despite all the obstacles. The lack of opportunities to black people was the biggest obstacle at that time. However been a science fiction writer was more than obsession to her, thanks to her positive obsession she would achieve it, although everybody even her family used to tell her that it was impossible for a black person to dream and become something, so her dream of being a science fiction writer was becoming less realistic for her. People like her had to work in factories, warehouses etc, in order to survive. But the one person who give her more support and hope was her mother who taught her the idea that everybody is good at something, it is just up to them to discover it. There was one day that Butler's mother was having a critical economic situation and was losing her house. However Butler finally sold one of her stories of science fiction in her twenties to writer-editors who were teaching at her school. Then she sold eight novels, with that money she could paid the mortgage for her mother's house and became one of the five famous black writers at that time. Now she writes for living.

Entry #2

March 13, and March 20, 2015

Last week and this week class was at somewhat similar in the way of using Google talk to do the work. Last week i was on the team 1 and we did about some of the works of Octavia Butler. We cited from the stories that we read at home and added to the work that we did. In today's class i was in team 5 and it was an awesome group, we contribute a lot each other and we focused the most in the themes of Octavia Butler's works.

Fledgling summaries

Chapterts 1-6

Fledgling Summaries In the first chapter is introduced the author who appears to be isolated, all alone in a dark cave somewhere in a hill and starving. At the beginning the author started recovering his mind little by little, she notices that she was injured by something and somehow, that even her es was not able to open. Also he was starving and layed down alone in what it seemed to be a bunch of leaves. Soon she could be able to move little by little trying to not hurt herself from the injuries. Also she could feed himself to kill the hunger from an animal that she perceived around her. When recovered about the 60 %, she could be able to move and walk for what she decided to go down the hill. In his ways she found what it seemed to be a burned village, everything was burned, even the plantations around it. He wondered if she belonged to that village and if her injures were result from that burning. Little by little she was recovering her mind, she started to touch herself and found scars all over her body and also she realized that she was naked, she felt kind of embarrassed and tough that was inappropriate. So she looked and found some clothes that would serve for use. Later on she was hungry again, she found and killed a deer to satisfy himself

After that she found a road that connected that village, so he started to walk away into that road. Later she found somebody driving a blue car, the person stopped and asked if she was all right. She said yes but she did nor convince the person because of his appearance, filled of deer blood and with the scars. The driver also noticed that she was a kid no more than ten years old and it would not be good to leave him out there alone in the darkness. Therefore the driver convinced him after many tries to get into the car, so he can get her home or at least be safe. The driver started to ask her some basic questions like her name, where she live, and where her family or friends were. The kid told him all the story until then, for what the driver tough in bringing her to the hospital or the police station so they could help the little kid. However she refused roundly to go to either of those places for what she tried to escape jumping out the car, but the driver got hurt after that situation, his hands were bleeding after fighting to stop the kid to jump out. Seeing the blood of the driver the kid started to lick it, that satisfied both of them, make them feel relaxed. Also the kid started to bit the driver's neck and drink more blood and the curious thing is that the driver let him to do that. After that situation the driver wondered why that happened, so he started to question the kid and later on he discovered that the kid was a vampire. That is why he use to get satisfied by drinking blood. The driver's name was Wright Hamlin from Seattle. He was a construction worker, that use to work for a company owned by his uncle. Wright tough that he would keep the kid seeing that sh did not want to go to the hospital or the police station. At the same time Wright tough that it would be dangerous for himself and other people around because the kid was a vampire, however he took him to his house. Also Wright make to promise the kid that he would not let seeing himself from others so she can keep Wright without a trouble. Once they were in the house cabinet Wright offered her food, clothes, and even more of his blood. In exchange she offered to have sex. However the kid tough that at some point of the night she had to go out to hunt for blood to sustain herself.

Wright decided to give her a name, "Rene". She went out to find people, and not too far away she found many large houses filled with people. In one of the houses she could find an unlocked window and she got in. In one room she found a sleeping lady, immediately Rene went to her neck, bites her and licked her blood. As Wright the lady let Rene to lick her blood. Theodora Harden was the lady's name and she invites Rene to come over again to let her drink her blood again. It started to looked weird even for Rene that people were offering their blood after she bite them. Same happened with four others, two man and two ladies who just let Rene drink their blood. However during the day while Wright was out working, Rene start to research online so she could find out what happened to her. Also she told Wright the story of the burned village that she saw before she met him. So he offered to take her the on the weekend so she could remember something about herself. As he promised they went to that place, on their way they found somebody. This person had a gun and started to shot at them, when they got off from the car. The individual started to fire again and this time Rene had to knock him out unconscious to stop the danger. Close from there, there was a helicopter and another person who looked the same kind as Rene. However Rene and Wright decided to find out about these guys, and try to get answers like why one of them tried to kill them etc.

Chapters 7-15

Soon they found the guy who looked the same kind as Rene, and then he got surprised by saying "Shory, you still alive?” He introduced himself to both of them and he told them his name was Iosif and he was Rene's father, which in reality Rene's real name was Shory. By the way he was glad to see her again and he offered to take both of them to his town. Somehow he figured that Wright was special to Shory for that reason he told them that they will be welcome to his house to have a new life living there. They went to the helicopter and flew to Iosif's town. In their way he explained that he and the other guy was his symbiont, his name was Raleigh Curtis and they were hunting for survivors around the burned area. He also explained to Shory that she used to belong to that burned town that somehow got burned with no survivors except her. He already knew the reason why Shory survived. He said that Shory was an experiment of some kind. She was made less vulnerable during the day and she had some genetic engineering part of human, these facts make her more flexible and fast against anything. Iosif told them that that was a community filled of women only, because in their race men and women do not leave together. All of the women there were Shory’s mothers and sisters, and about 78 of them were burned and shouted to death. However when they got to that town named Darrington and got in to Iosif's house, they found more people who were happy to see Shory again but she still could not remember a thing. Iosif kept telling them about their lives, and introducing each one of the family to Shory but none of it was familiar to her. This entire people in the house were Shory’s brothers and symbionts of Iosif and Shory’s brother Stefan, who was one of her special people in her life. Iosif also said that all the people who had fed Shory had to be close to her because they absorbed a drug that is in her saliva, so they need always Shory to be with them or otherwise they will die. For that reason he also offered Wright to stay and live with them in their community, although he did not like that idea. Also Iosif suggested Shory to bring the other people known as symbionts, so they will live close to Shory for their needs. So she tought about Theodora Harden, was the only one who she wanted close to her, the rest she did not. So she had the option to erase her from their memories. Shory and Wright did not like the idea to stay and live there but they had no other choice. However they left Iosif's place to go and get things ready in Wright's place. In addition to convince Theodora Harden to come with them this was going to be an easy thing to do according to Iosif. Shory went to see Theodora and quickly she was convinced to go to live with them. One week already passed and they already were waiting for Iosif to come and get them to his place but this did not happened as it was expected!. Iosif did not show up and did not even call them, so they decided to contact him, but this was workless. So Wright and Shory decided to come back to Darrington to see what was going on. However Shory had a bad feeling about this situation so she wanted to go there no matter what. So they both went without having any idea to get there. Iosif gave them his business card with phone numbers and a map that was useless. Later Shory decided to go by herself and told Wright to wait on the road and for her while she was going to look for them by their scent. Finally she found the town of Darrington all burned without any survivors. Rapidly she started to look for his dad and her brother Stephan, but she found them dead. After a while 2 women got in to that place, one of them took out a gun to shoot at Shory but she stopped her on time. They were Brook and Celia who used to live at Iosif’s house. They were Iosif’s and Stefan’s symbionts and they just got there from visiting their relatives in Seattle. She told them the little about she knew what was going on there. However Shory decided to bring them with her and Wright to keep them safe. They told her about a place not too far away named Arlington where Iosif owned a house, that place was where he used to keep his symbionts and relatives safe. So they went there likely as having a safe house momentarily. Brook and Celia had to accept that they had to survive from Shory and it was irremediable. However late in that day they got attacked by what it looked like some humans. These people were the same who destroyed and killed Shory’s family. All of them were armed with guns and cans of gasoline with the intention of burn and kill Shory and the others. Somehow Shory could defeat them with her quickness. Some of them got killed and the others run away. And also Shory and the rest could escape from that place and went to another place secure for a moment, so they could rest and plan what to do in order to end up that situation. Also they had some time to go to the groceries and by some supplies in order to survive the following days, in addition they bought clothes for themselves. While they were looking for a solution to the problem, Shory thought that they will need the knowledge and intelligence of an adult ina, more likely Iosif. So Brook told them about the only ina people who knew were the Gordon family who live in the San Francisco area. So they planned to go and look for them over there. Before the trip they fixed some important things in Wright’s house like him talking to his family telling them about the problem. Also he wanted them to keep the only job he had for him. Also Shory had to talk with Theodora and tell her about the problem, Theodora wanted to go with them bur Shory did not let her and told her to wait there for them to comeback. Afterwards they finally started the trip to San Francisco with the hope of finding a solution to the situation.

Entry #4

March 27, 2015

The professor taught us the deference between summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting. Very important in the world of Wikipedia in order to do not plagiarize that is not acceptable in Wikipedia. Also we got together in a group of three people and we were in team 4. We did some contributions on the influence on Octavia Butler, like who motivated her to succeed in her life. We took ideas from three different readings and add them together, by next week we will finish with the influence and jump to the next theme that will be the reception and legacy.

Entry #5

April 17, 2015

Today we divided the work. My partner i focused in the influence to Octavia Butler. i spent most of my time looking for sources and adding to the work. I learned about how Butler's life was, how she had to pass many obstacles in order to success. She got a few disappointments like losing her mother's money in one of the unpublished stories and that money was part of their rent. Also she got criticized a lot by one of her friends because she told her that it would be a waste of money when her mother got her the typewriter. However this was careless to her and with the help of one of her professors she was able to write and perfection her stories. All of this had contribute to her to success.

Chapter 16-21

Chapters 16-21 Finally Shory, Wright, Brook, and Celia started the trip. On their way they bought supplies for the trip and also a map, so it will help them to get there. Plus they were hoping that Brook would recognize the area anytime soon when they were about to get there. As it was said Brook started to see places that were familiar like landmarks, business and signs. She was confident already and she started to guide them to Punta Neblada, where the Gordon's live. As soon as they got to Punta Neblada everybody in the town got alerted as Shory and the rest were passing through the streets. All the people were symbionts who belonged to the Gordon's family. Some of them got guns in their hands, it seemed to be a very secure place to live. Later they got in to Daniel Gordon's house, and he welcomed them. He was nice, and used to know Shory from pictures. More likely in fact he had some kind of attraction to Shory. However all the Gordons and their symbiont's got together at Daniel's house to meet Shory and the rest. Shory told them the story of what happened to her, her symbionts and her family. All of them knew about those attacks from the TV news and the newspaper, but they never imagine that was going to be a survivor from it. They wondered what the origin of the tragedy was but they could not find out from the news because Iosif was able to cover it up. Preston and Hayden were the oldest from the Gordon family. Their sons were Wells, Manning, Henry, and Edward. And they turn to be the fathers of Daniel, Wayne, Philip, and William. All of them had a long conversation with Shory and her symbionts. Shory and the rest were uncomfortable there, the Gordon's symbionts were intimidating them because they were strangers. Shory told them to stop it because they just got there to get some help, and not to harm them in anyway. Wright also gave his opinion from the situation and event ought it sounded in some way offended to them, they could respect it. So the Gordon's were glad that Shory was safe and they offered them their guess home at Punta Neblada to start a new life Shory with her symbionts. The Gordon's suggested Shory tone of have more symbionts so she can create her own Ina community. And they offered one of William's symbionts named Joel Harrison. He was twenty two years old and he just got out from college. They saw like a nice idea to Joel joining with Shory since he had a degree in business and administration and he will be able to manage the business affairs of Shory's family. This situation bothered to Wright since he thought that he will have to share, fight, and compete Shory with another guy but at the end he had to agree. However everything was going well Shory had equipped herself and her symbionts with supplies that will help them in their safety in the Gordon's guess house. Martin Harrison the father of Joel provided her a charged cellphone so she could communicate with anybody just in case of emergency. One day Wayne and Manning Gordon decided to go to Washington to find out the reasons of the tragedy by exploring the ruins of the males and females of Shory's community. Also they wanted to find out who handles Iosif's and Shory's mother legal affairs, because they thought that it had to exist some properties somewhere in the country that will belong to Shory. Days after they were gone Punta Neblada go attacked from what it seemed the same attackers from Shory's family. But this time everybody was so alerted that they could handle the attack easily. It just resulted in just a little damaged houses and some symbionts injured. But in the other side the attackers were knocked unconscious, they killed some of them from eighteen that were. And the rest they waited until they woke up to finally ask them who they were and why they wanted to kill them. One of them finally woke up and he was Victor Colon, he admitted that they were sent to do the attacks as that was expected for everyone. He said that some Ina collected eighteen stranger and send them to do whatever he wanted. It looked like it was some kind of envy from some family to Shory's one for the genetic engineering. Victor also said that they were convinced that Shory's family were all sick, and they were doing medical experiments on people like the Nazis did. And they were prostituting women and kids. They were all from LA and he also said that the family that was responsible were the Silk family. So the Gordon's decided to put a council of judgement against the Silks in case they all get killed, the Silks will also get killed. In order to accomplish that they had to have the agreement of thirteen Ina families. And of course the Silk family rejected that and they said that they were not responsible on anything. Milo who was the oldest of the silks rejected roundly about his family having any responsibility with the attacks.

Two days were left until the day of the council of judgment, in which was going to be present all the Gordon's and the Silks of course plus two representatives of the thirteen families. Every representative of the families reached to Punta Neblada little by little. All of them were strangers to Shori, because she could not remember any of them. Anyway she found out that some of the families were relatives to her like the Braithwaite family. and she started to met them better even thought this did not going to like Daniel. However the day finally arrived and the representatives were Fotopoulos, Marcu, Morariu, Dalhman, Rappaport, Westfall, Nicolau, Andrei, Svoboda, Akhmatova, Nagy, eontyev and Braithwaite.

Chapter 22-Epilogue

The counsel of judgment started and Preston Gordon welcomed everybody and Milo Silk was the one to make the bless, due that he was the oldest in the counsel. A series of events Shori was learning like the other family's origin. During the council meeting, Something unexpected happened, Theodora was found dead. There was a plan from the Silks to distract and mainly to harm Shori even further. It was determined that Theodora was last seen with one of the council members, Katherine Dahlman’s symbiont Jack Roan, so the culpability was without any doubt on them.. Katherine who was a member of the Silk's is removed from the hearings and is placed on trial herself. She was condoned to a death penalty. During the trials, Ina prejudice is revealed when Milo Silk attacked Shori by rejecting her to be one of his kind "an Ina".

Research Assignment #4

1. Yes

2. Bildungsroman means the psychological and moral growths from youth to adulthood. Shori suffered several changes since the first attack until the counsel, she kind of mature

3. The first main obstacle is xenophobia. Shori feared the attackers who killed her family members, and she kept going away every time the attackers started to attack The other obstacle was self-ignorance. Most of the time she felt ignorant because of not knowing about Ina life and not having any idea on how to take care of her symbionts.

4. Shori’s awakening in the beginning of the novel means the start of a new life from cero. Not remembering anything about herself or her family and friend. Shori’s awakening after she has defended herself and her symbionts from Katherine mean that she finally found herself and what she is capable of.

5. The story is not simply a story about a vampire girl growing up and defeating her enemies. Even taking into account the narratological differences between the narrating I and the narrated I, the novel is a story which Shori tells of herself after it has happened.

6. The trauma that she suffered, and about her attackers’ identity as the central quest for her identity and self-awareness, explicit sources of agency.

7. Shori bites him for the first time, discovering both her ability to influence him and the immense physical pleasure her bite bestows on him. Even here, Shori chooses what happens to her, she is not rescued by Wright, as Brox claims (393). After she convinces him to take her to his house, Shori informs Wright that while she cannot remember many specifics of who or what she is, some details of what the relationship between her and Wright should be like have started to emerge.

8. They simply have different hierarchies than the human society. Symbionts play only a minor role in the social and political processes that influence their lives. They are rarely, if ever, present during discussion of general strategy.

9. In the last paragraph, Bast explains that, in the aggregate, Fledgling posits “whether the highest degree of agency is automatically the most desirable state of being or whether there is a higher potential for happiness in choosing a specific kind of dependence.” In your view, how happy are Shori’s symbionts about their dependence on her? How do you know? 1. Shori, in biracial terms, the hybrid figure proves valuable for discussing Shori’s identity and expanding the conversation beyond a rigid binary of black and white, vampire and human.

2. Brute force that controls and dominates, and human endurance that compromises and survives. The first one is closely with Shori.

3. Ina are overly attentive to distinctions between species—vampire and human—Butler seems to suggest that human readers are the ones who interpret the Ina situation as one comparable to racial considerations.

4. Butler’s vampires coexist with humans, who— unless they have been taken as symbionts—do not even know that vampires dwell among them. Butler’s vampires do not embody the fears and anxieties of the society they infiltrate; rather, Butler shifts the monstrosity from the figure to the social ills themselves.

6. Many believed that if the offspring of black and white parents were sterile, as a mule is sterile, then the inability to procreate would prove that blacks and whites were different species.

7. The Silk family rigorously argues for the drawbacks of a hybrid vampire and its effect on Ina purity during the climactic trial scene. In Impossible Purities, Jennifer Brody examines nineteenth-century texts that “may be seen as expressing popular anxieties about race, gender, sexuality, class, and nationalism”. The Ina have reversed the power structure and are the ones who dominate humans.

8. Shori’s parents clearly anticipate benefits for Ina society as a result of their genetic engineering. Shori’s ability to survive, fight back, and potentially procreate challenges the assumption of Ina as the pinnacle of the species hierarchy. A naturally occurring hybrid threatens this hierarchy more than a scientifically created one because the natural hybrid, which would occur if Shori were allowed to reproduce, would disrupt the Ina’s claim to power. It would force a redefinition of “normal” because science could not be blamed for the outcome; rather, the Ina would be forced to confront the fear and anxiety that result from the recognition that hybrid is just as “normal” as “pure” is, if not more so.

9. Milo Silk implies that Shori’s mixed-blood makes her comparable to an animal. Seeing her as biologically inferior, and in fact a completely different species from himself, allows Silk to dismiss her accusations and any justification for being there. Silk eases his anxiety about the impossibility of purity by projecting his fears onto the body of the Other. As long as Shori, and symbionts, are not similar to him, then Silk can maintain the illusion that his family is “pureblood” Ina and superior to humans.

1. Butler offers a step up the evolutionary ladder by positing a mutual deracination: the vampire becomes less vampiric and acquires more human qualities (emotional attachments, communitarianism in Fledgling) and the human loses some of her/his qualities (sickness, sexual possessiveness).

2. It occurs through the narrative of alternate history that Butler offers: that Ina vampires have lived with human symbionts for thousands of years

3. it is entrusted to technology in Butler's posthumanism, but a technology that draws upon the virtues of a historically subordinated race: the Africans. Racial identity, as we know, is predicated primarily upon the colour of the skin. The darkening of Shori's skin in Butler achieves a fine degree of complexity here.

4. The vampire discovers the necessity of the human, and the humans are dependent upon the vampires (a theme that runs through Butler's work, in fact). The humans who are bitten, significantly, do not become vampires--rather they develop immunity, longevity and a great sense of attachment to their Ina.

Entry #7

May 1, 2015

In today's class we started doing some paraphrasing work in groups of two. With my partner we were able to elaborate 5 paraphrasing sentence for each of the sentences that were given. Then some of us took some time doing some of the assignments that we could not do it at home. In my case i was in a kind of a emergency for the whole week that prevented me to do homeworks. and finally we joined in our real team, mine number 4, and we submitted the influence and the critical reception on Octavia Butler on Wikipedia.

Fledgling Review

The three of these articles focus in the relationship between humans and aliens (vampires). These articles tries to show us how the humanity are dominated by in this case vampires. In the story of Fledgling by Octavia Butler some humans who are symbionts are dominated for Ina species. This is a pattern that is followed for all Ina community in order to survive. In the article Govan the author focus on Shori's experiment and how this made the envy for other family Ina like the Silk family. The success of the Genetic engineering made the Silks killed Shori's family to keep the pride of the Ina community according to them. The wanted purify raze and Shori's experiment was going to mess their reputation. "The family’s goal in creating Shori is to enable her to enable her people, the Ina, to withstand sunlight, Insofar as strong sun and the light of day are still deadly to the vampire community" The facts surrounding Shori’s birth and development become the flashpoint of a tense conflict that is not resolved by following the traditional Ina way. Someone initiates a brutal attack on her family that leaves Shori terribly wounded and results in her suffering an irreversible amnesia.

In Gothic's reading the author involve a young black woman or girl with a special talent or mutation (she cannot help experiencing other people’s emotions or physical sensations, for example), or who is placed in a bizarre situation (sent back in time to save a white male ancestor, or forced to breed with alien invaders). This article focus in the amnesic of Shori who little by little starts knowing who she is. Also This article makes the symbionts to be very important, they are willing participants in these relationships, since they gain health and longevity, as well as physical and emotional pleasure. Vampires live in complex communities with other vampires and symbionts. In the article from Susana, the author focus in the interdependence, freedom and unfreedom, and the cost of human survival. This article makes reference to the novel Kindred and fledgling. In this article the author states "The vampire premise is perfectly suited to themes that Butler has been exploring since her earliest novels: interdependence, freedom and unfreedom, and the cost of human survival

This reviews mentions •	Agency •	Mutualistic symbiosis •	Racism

Entry #8

May 8, 2015

Today in groups we did one of my fairest things to do that is to make a presentation in front of the class during 10 minutes. My partner and I did about the article “Hierarchical Behavior” to Strategic Amnesia: Structures of Memory and Forgetting in Octavia Butler’s Fledgling, by Evans, Shari. Which we explained about Shori’s amnesty and some Hierarchies that are superior over others.

Entry #9

May 15, 2015 Today we got the visit of Dr. Taylor who give us some suggestions and ideas that we could use in our work of the novel Fledgling, It was really helpful. After that we got together in groups, mine was team #1 and we were assigned to work on the characters and agency of the novel.

Entry #10

May 22, 2015

In today's class we worked in team number 1. We were given the work about the descriptions and main characteristics of all and each majors and minors characters of the novel of fledgling. I worked together with James Johnson, and we made a good work, because we got excellent rates from three different teams.