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Octavia Butler was shy as a child.

== References  ==

Summary
In Amnesty, Noah is the main character, She was kidnapped by aliens when she was set free she was tortured by the government for information. Then she works in a stranger community where the aliens live, at first she couldn't understand their language, it was hard for them to communicate.

Summary
The book of Martha talks about how a girl named Martha meets God. At first she feels scared to see this man that look like Michael Angelo's Moses. Martha and God meet, Martha wants to believe that it is all a dream, yet God tells her she has being picked up to do a work for him, Martha had the duty to make a change in humanity, in order to save them. God tells her that whatever she wants to do on humankind, it will have its consequences and even some people could die. Martha gets scared, she wants to help humankind but she does not want to hurt them. She gives God the idea of making dreams of humans more realistic, if a person is a good they will get good dreams, if a person is bad they will get bad dreams, God liked the idea but he also remarked that people might want to sleep since they live their dreams in their dreams, yet it still was a fantastic idea, he was happy about the idea and wondering what could happen makes him feel hyper.

Summary
The story starts with Rye, a lonely woman from California who was hoping to find her brother and two children in Pasadena. She took a bus to Pasadena, two man were communicating with gestures on the bus, which lead to a fight probably by a misunderstood of gestures. When the bus stopped, Rye got off the bus through the back door. She got off in a place where buses don't have an stable schedule, the next bus could come later or tomorrow. A tall, bearded man passes on a car and sees Rye, he had a LAPD uniform on. The bearded takes Rye on his car and he drives Rye with her. At first Rye was scared, then she started to trust him when he asked her which way she wanted to go, left or right. Rye now started losing her fear. She named the bearded man Obsidian. Obsidian knew how to read a map, Rye had not have sex for three years. Obsidian got close to her, pulled out a condom and had sex with Rye. On their away to Pasadena, they see a man stabbed twice to a woman, Obsidian gets involve and shot the man, the man shot back at Obsidian and Rye shot back at the man. Two children came out of a house, they were probably relatives of the woman. Rye wanted to buried Obsidian and the woman, she completely ignore the two children. When she is about to take the woman to the car a kid said "no, go away". That was the first time Rye heard someone speak, she has change her mind and now she wants to take care of the children.

Quotes
"'don't talk' the little boy said to her"

"Im Valerie Rye"

Summary
This story is about Lynn Mortimer, a girl who has a disease called Duryea-Gode Disease, aka DGD. Lynn doesn't eat enough, so her parents took her to a DGD clinic because they didn't want Lynn to get sick. When they got to the place, Lynn got scared when seeing all the weird things doctors use. She tried to commit suicide in the bathtub, her dad went in and saved her. Few days later, her father kills her mother and then he kills himself. After she gets over her parents death, she decides to go to college, the University of Southern California. There she met friends with DGD, she shared the the room with her friends. She always puts order in her room. Lynn's friend introduce her to Alan, they instantly connect with each other. Alan starts talking about her mother and how she is at the Dilg. Alan wants to go visit her mother and so he invites Lynn.When they arrived to Dilg, they met Beatrice. Alan talked to her mother, her mother could barely talk, Alan introduce Lynn to her mother and told her that they married. After meeting with Alan's mother, Beatrice talks to Alan and Lynn and tells them how Lynn has a special gift just like Beatrice. Beatrice wants Lynn to work at DIlg after she graduates. After talking with Beatrice, Alan and Lynn get into the car and the guard drives them away from Dilg.

Quotes
"What are you saying? That we have a special gift?"

Butler's Biography
Octavia Butler was born in California. She was raised by her mother and her maternal grandmother. When she was only 7 years old, her father passed away. She grew up in a community where people from her race were disrespected and sometimes discriminated by superiors. Butler's mom used to taker her to work with her. Butler would witness the harassment towards her mom by her white bosses. Butler's mom would take books for Octavia to read. At her early age it was hard for Octavia to interact with people, she suffered from bullying because of height, 6 feet. She used to spend her time in the library and at the age of 10, she asked her mom for a story Remington typewrite where she started to write her first stories. Her aunt once told her that she couldnt be a writer because of her skin color. After graduating from high school, Butler went to college and as a freshman she won a short story contest.

Summary
Gan is the protagonist of the story. He lives with Tlics some type of specie from another planet. Gatoi has grown up along with Gan’s mother, Lien. The Tlics used the terrans as instruments, in order to keep their specie away from extinction. They live in preserves. Before Lien got pregnant she promised Gatoi one of her children so Gatoi could have kids. Gatoi wants Gan to have her eggs, but Gan is a man, yet Gan accepts and lets Gatoi transfer her eggs to his body.

Quotes
"If we are not your animals, these are adult things, accept the risk"(31)

Speech Sounds
Govan, Sandra Y. "Disparate Spirits Yet Kindred Souls: Octavia E. Butler, 'Speech Sounds,' and Me." Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler. Ed. Rebecca J. Holden and Nisi Shawl. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2013. 109-127.

Sorlin, Sandrine. "Stylistic Techniques and Ethical Staging in Octavia Butler's 'Speech Sounds'." The Ethics and Poetics of Alterity: New Perspectives on Genre Literature. Ed. Maylis Rospide and Sandrine Sorlin. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2015. 82-94. ISBN-13:  978-1443872027

Troy, Maria Holmgren. "Loss of Words: Octavia Butler's 'Speech Sounds'." The Power of Words. Ed. Solveig Granath, June Miliander, and Elizabeth Wennö. Karlstad, Sweden: Karlstads Universitet, 2005. 73-80.

The Book of Martha
Barr, Marleen S. "Oy/Octavia: Or Keeping My Promise to Ms. Butler." Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters 32.4 (2009): 1312-13 14.

Curtis, Claire. “‘Maybe Effort Counted.’ John Rawls and Thought Experiments.” Postapocalyptic Fiction and the Social Contract: We'll Not Go Home Again. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012.

Curtis, Claire P. “Theorizing Fear: Octavia Butler and the Realist Utopia”. Utopian Studies 19.3 (2008): 411–431.

Hampton, Gregory Jerome. “Religious Science Fiction: Butler’s Changing God.” Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler. Blue Ridge Summit, US: Lexington Books, 2010. [E-book] ISBN: 9780739137871 (hbk.); 9780739137895 (e-book)