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Fledgling Review
In the Review by Rob Gates reviewing Fledgling by Octavia Butler he describes how Butler’s strange way to start the novel shows us right away that the novel will not be anything like other vampire stories. He explains how Butler applied her methods of gender, race, prejudice and social commentary. He describes how she starts off her novel with a fast spend and starts to slow down after the second half of the book.Gates describes how the narrator starts off Clueless and lost and During the novel she searching for answers from her past to discover who she is and what Exactly is she. Gates describe how the over all book is not perfect but Its an amazing Job coming from Butler because butler put a lot of thought and creativity.

Three Themes I think are in the Review are -Feminism --Difference as a means to survival --Alternative sexual relations/ sexuality/ family relations

Work Cited (Gates)Fledgling by Octavia Butler .Strange Horizons.2006.Web 06 March.2006

Journal Entry #1
March 6 2015 In my first class of ENG 103 we created a Wikipedia account and learned how to use the sandbox and edit it. The sandbox is a playground for us to practice and explore tools in the box.I also learn how to go on the library and use ebook and e host to fin the novel "birth of a writer and cite MLA citations into my sandbox by going at the bottom and finding wkiik mark up and select the button at the bottom of the box and clicking wiki markup. There i found that in order to be able to see any citation i need to place the button and have it sit all the way to the bottom.This creates the little numbers at the cite of the titles so readers know which citation it connected to which .Another think i learned is when clicking on the arrow next to ADVANCED and the different types of size for headlines appear and we can click on it  and insert the name between the lines.

Journal Entry #3
March 27 2015 Today in class Professor X explained to us about plagiarism.We got together in teams and divided the biography in five different sections and work individual using the articles given to us in our previously classes .We wrote our draft in Microsoft word and had someone from our group review it before pasting it to the Wikipedia work space.She showed us the rules and doe's and don't for quotation.We learned how to work in groups and distribute our ideas into improving Octavia Butlers biography.

Journal entry #4
March 27 2015 Today in class we got divided into groups in which we will all be focusing on different parts of the article we will be editing in Wikipedia website.We gather together in our groups and decided to divide the different section among us.I picked Childhood section because i felt was a easy section for me. I gather all my articles and went over them and highlight sections that i felt would fit in the childhood part.As i gather all my ideas i start writing the section and the prof. is walking around peeking at our work which makes me nervous if my work is good or bad. after we take a 15 min break ,we return and upload our work in order under our team 1 section .then before the class is over we type down our journal entry which i am doing right now. The class was very productive mainly because everyone was super excited that spring break was right around the corner.

Journal Entry #5
April 17 2015 Today in class we went over other people in our groups parts of the biography. after we edit it and added some parts we felt needed improvement,we gather with Professor X and she explain to us how we could improve them a little more.I decided to the part of Birth and Family. I decide to add more information of her family household and their believes and religion. As well as how her passion for science fiction started developing at a very young age.Mt extra assignment is to print out the last revision the group uploads go top the writing center and have someone go over it once more with me. After i have gotten the feed Back i will go to our team one group section and Edit the suggestions given to me at the writing center. Once i completed that i will email the professor before Thursday to go over it before Fridays class.

Journal Entry #6
April 24 2015 Today in class we gather with our previous group and got together with another team. We printed our assignment done from last class and the other teams work as well. When we print them out we read the appositive teams work and they read owes. After reading them we all wrote down any suggestion or idea we had on the assignment. We then later got gather back and discussed our suggestions and ideas of their work and they did the same in return.After we all agree on the suggestion we then return to our original groups and each worked on one part to add any suggestion.After being done we coded the ref ref in a Microsoft word and then copy and past under our team sandbox. We later had extra time before class was over so we finished our journal entries and finish the homework that was assign to us last week.

Journal Entry #7
MAY 1 2015 Today in class we finally posted our sections we been working on the past couple of classes on Octavia Butler biography section on Wikipedia.I had the honor to upload the early life section to Wikipedia which was a little nerve wrecking because every Wikipedian was now able to see our hard work we been doing for the last couple of classes.

Journal Entry #8
May 8 2015

Today in class we gather with our groups that were assigned to and went up in front of the class and presented our work from our groups.

Journal Entry #9
May 15 2015

Today in class we got to meet Dr.Taylor and she went over with us the themes and gave us some ideas of what we could use to work with in our groups.After the break prof. assigned us our teams. We gather together and discussed what section we are going to be working on. Mazuyuki and i decided to do Hybridity section and work on it as much as possible.The Professor gave us till Wednesday to complete our sections.

Journal Entry #10
May 22 2015 Today in class we were assigned to a different part of the editing in the fledgeling review.I was assigned to hybridity again and had to revise draft 2 of the section and create a draft 3 .After we were confident that our section was done to the best of our ability, we printed out the section and we had the professor hand out our work to another group.The other group revised our section and comment on what we could improve in the section.We received section "sexual relationship". We looked over the sections and added a few comments. after we gather with the group in whi8ch we switched papers and went over of our views on each other sections.after we went back top our sections edited the little feedback we received. Later on professor spoke to us about the final paper that is due for this class.

Chapters 1-6
Octavia E. Butler- Fledgling

In Chapters 1 through 6 from Fledgling are about this young girl who woke up in a dark place and was very confuse. She tries to look for answers or clues to find out who she is. She meet this older men named Wright who decides to help her and names her Renee. He takes her to a cabin he is staying at with his uncle. Although she looks very young they connect in a very sexual way. Wright and her get into a sexual relationship after she bit him for the first time. Wright becomes curious of what Renee specie might be. He offered to help her with books and internet access .As the protagonist tries to figure out who she is or what she is. She goes in look for different prays besides Wright because she doesn't want to hurt him by draining his blood. She wants to be able to have a lot blood access so she won’t hurt or weaken any of the humans. Even though she craves blood she doesn't desire it enough to hurt people. She then realize that she might have power to heal with her bites or saliva. Her bites hypnotizes humans and have they obey to her desires to drink their blood. Her body after getting shot starts to heal by eating fresh meat and resting.

Chapter 7-15
Octavia E. Butler Fledgling In chapter 7 throughout 15 Renee discover that the place that was burned down was here home in which she lived with her mother and father and her original name is Shori. She later on finds out that the creature she believed was a deer she killed turned out to be a man of her kind that was in search of survivors from her area. She meets this man named Iosif and is willing to explain to her what she is and how she is so much like them.He then admit that he is her father and she is and experimental that's why her skin so dark so she can stand being out in daylight. Renee discovers that Wright will die without her, he need her venom that she produces in her saliva when she sucks his blood. Wright and Shori have this passionate relationship he desires and need her saliva and she needs and want his blood. She feels happy that she is not harming Wright but is scared because he can’t live without her.She is still in search for answer to figure out who she really was.

Chapter 16-21
In this chapter Shorti (Rene) noticed the cars and called to warn the others. Tragically Most of them died and luckily only two houses were damaged a little by the fire. Shorti was able to keep one named Victor captive to help her understand why the “Silks” send them to burn their houses. She takes Victor to Danielle house and Victors being question. Hypnotize by Shorti venom Victors confesses to being bitten and picked up with several other man and taken to place to do this “jobs”. They agree to let question the rest of the survivors and see if their stories match and let them go, because they believe that the “silk” don’t even know where this men live. Hayden than shows Shorti three books with Ina languages. Shorti then discovers she is able to understand the language. Some of Shorti family decides to come to the Gordon family and explain and talk to her about her ancestors and her family. She discover her ability to be outside in daylight makes her very powerful and her female family as herself have this very strong sent. Shorti is trying to learn how to blend with the symbionts by adapting to their lifestyle.

“Positive Obsession” by Octavia Butler and the Interview by Charles Rowell
Reading Interview by Charles Rowell and Octavia Butler biographical I have learn that Butler was a young black child that had this incredible imagination at just age 4. She was an only child and her dream was to become a science fiction writer. One aspect of her life in which I found it very important was that despite her aunt not believing in her dream, she didn't give up. All though it took her longer then what she was hopping for she didn't lose hope .She had part time jobs while she worked on her writing and after so many rejection letters, she finally sold two of her short stories.

Another important aspect of her life that should be highlighted in Wikipedia article is that she comes from a very poor family that had to work very hard to survive. Butler’s mother never had the chance to finish her education because at young age her parents made her work to be able to help support the family while the older brother worked. The issue wasn't just because they were black, being a women also lower your standers to becoming successful in that era. She took everything she learned about her ancestors had to go through as motivation to try to improve her life. Her mother wanted her to become a secretary and be able to work while sitting down but she wanted to write down her stories shes been creating in her head since she was a infant.

Positive Obsession

Interview by Charles Rowell

Citation practice
Encyclopedia of Science fiction

Birth of a Writer