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Citation Practice

Octavia Butler was shy as a child.

Journal Entry#1

We had learned today the importance of write for Wikipedia. How you can share to people around the world, all your knowledge, for a better world. Also how to create a user on it, how to edit source, how work on your sandbox. And how to cite our source.

"Wild Seed, Chapters 1-4"

“Wild Seed” by Olivia Buttler is a story about two immortal and powerful beings, a women named Anyanwu, and a men called Doro. They both get to know each other by coincidence. When Doro went to check what happened with his seeds villages. Anyanwu, had a very strong ability of make medical herbs to relief people. In the other hand, Doro keeps him alive by killing people and using their bodies. In other words he is like a spirit living from bodies to bodies. In addition, by the time they got to know each other, she had lived three hundred years. During all her journey in life, she had through bad times, she had been slaves, had to changes her identity in order to be free, and so many things that had made her a master. After they had been talking about each other life, Doro asked Anyanwu to leave with him in his journey to the America. She accept, and is there where their big life together star to take place.

Journal Entry #2

In this class we learned the differences between primary source and secondary source. Also we learned what we need for create a good research paper, how to search for major details when we are writing a summary. Very important is to not set our opinion on a summary.

“Research Assignment 1.”

Octavia Butler was raised in a time where black people where set apart of society, they were minority and lived segregated. she was raised by her mom, a housemaid, because her father died when she was seven years old. Butler knew what feels powerless and discriminated was, because of the bad time she faced in her mom’s work with the white people way oh treat them. Also, in school when kids used to bully her. In other word, she went through really bad times, that could lead her to depression. However, she take the most of it, doing something that would define his life career. She used to spend her time reading and writing books in the library, is in there where she discover her passion of writing fictions books. She start writing more and more, with the desire of publishing it, but in this time were she was at her young age, black weren't allow to be writers. She graduated from high school, and went to college where she got her associate of arts degree in History. Later on, she was doing part times jobs, so she can have time for what she loved to do, write. Within the years, she finally could finally publish her books, winning many awards. Becoming such an important figure for the science fiction world.

I found Octavia Butler was a fighter strong women. She didn't let this bad times where black where considered nothing, take away their passion of be a writer. Even though, she went through a lot, she always persevere. And, that’s what makes the person she become, leading to her success.

"Wild Seed, Chapters 5-6"

In the voyage, Okoye and Udenkwo connected due to the loneliness, vulnerability and despair in which they were connected as one. They ended getting married. In these two chapters there was a lot of symbolism and pretty much every animal form Anyanwu became it meant something. For her it meant freedom or a way to escape from her misery. Also, I can said it was a chapters of new beginnings, adapting to other peoples customs different than their own in order to blend in and adjust.

Journal Entry #3

Today we learned how to paraphrase, summarize and quote. For a good paraphrase we have to change the structure of the sentences and changes words. Also how important is use signal phrases for let the readers know your point of view from what you had quote.

"Wild Seed, Chapters 7-10"

Anyanwu was lucky because she had too much power over Doro. Doro wasn't used to be with people he can’t control. He wasn't able to kill her to take her body, because he only take the people’s bodies not within power. So, take her body wont make him last longer. He used her to have as many children he could before it was the time to kill her. Doro was feared by all the people of the community because of his power. He was seen as a God and someone everyone respect. Not only him, also Anyanwu was also feared by the people, because of her dark skin color and she also had too much power, so they though she was a witch. Also, there was a new family in wild seed, The Slonanes, they were unstable and threatening because they found suffering as part of their life.

Journal Entry #4

Today we learned how a novel analysis is structured. First we have to do a Lead, which is the summary oh the whole analysis,that contains what sections are you going to have in your analysis. Then, the plot, the summary of action in the novel. Also, the characters, themes, which is the message behind the plot, background, publication history and reception, which are the review and critics. Those are the things we need to have a complete analysis of a novel.

Journal Entry #5

The class of today we covered a lot. Basics things for our research. How to cite MLA, the differences between big things, for example like the author name you have to type in italics. And the small things are in quotation marks. We read two articles about Octavia Butler and highlighted the main topic she focus on her books. Such as strong black female character and power between male and female.

"Wild Seed", Chapter #11

Anyanwu realized that Doro wanted to kill her. The time pass by, Doro was creating settlements in differences country, so he didn't see Anyanwu for a long time. Anyanwu keep switching on and off between an actual person to an animal. Doro was searching for her, he could only feel her in a human form. This was her healing period for Anyanwu, she had lost another husband, also a child. Her sons and daughters passed away, either due to age or that "stupid war of 1812" as she referred to. On the other side, Doro had not changed his way of living, killing people for his own benefits to create a powerful breed of people. He expanded his dominion throughout the U.S., Brazil and even Mexico. As time progressed he eventually located Anyanwu, not to far from Louisiana. Later, It happened to be that Joseph, Doro's son had gone though transition in her home and tried to rape her youngest daughter, Helen of only 11 years of age. Joseph just entered Anyanwu’s home to create pain as another son of her's, Stephen was found dead the next day. Anyanwu kill Joseph for what he had done. Days later she came o find out that he was part of her ancestry. Doro had intended to kill her years ago but now he had came to the conclusion that she was much more than valuable.

Research Assignment #2

Lynn, E. “Vampires Aliens, and Dodos,”

• What is the meaning of being a human.
• Two immortals with different power, Doro and Anyanwu .
• Psychic powers. how one mind had been into too many bodies.
• Male manipulation over the female figure
• Even though of the manipulation of Doro, Anyanwu was always ahead of him, he was such a *powerful female.

“Doro existence is obsessively dedicated to breeding a line of people with various psychic gifts and for his people he is God.” In other words, his mission is keep his genes through generations, in order to discover new power gifts.

Pfeiffer, “Octavia Estelle Butler (b. 1947),”

• Slavery
• Power
• West Africa
• How “wild seed” is such a incredible story that include the long life of a man, Doro. that had kept him alive by taking bodies of people.
• Anyanwu, such a powerful black women, able to heal with her power.
• The relationship between Doro and Anyanwu

“The relationship between Doro and Anyanwu dramatizes a fundamental conflict between the affinity a solitary immortal male and female might feel for another in a world of mortals, and the hatred Anyanwu must feel toward a being who kills people, including his own children, without remorse.” That is to say, for Anyanwu its so hard keep this relation, because of the way Doro lives, killing people and taking their bodies.

Bishop. M. “Wild Seed,”

• One of the best oddest love story
• Also, is mentioned in this review, the longevity of Doro and Anyanwu.
• Male domination
• All started in Nigeria 1690s to America in the 1800s.
• Both ended falling in love.

“Indeed, the most remarkable accomplishment of Wild Seed may be that Butler leads us to believe in the humanity of two terribly unlikely near-immortals, both Africans, both apparently figures from Igbo mythology.” In other words, Butler creates a novel where the protagonists are black, which wasn't very common at this time that black people had power.

Journal Entry #6

Today in class, we went over the readings of the research assignments. We finished assignment number 3. Also we went over the reviews of assignment number 4 and highlighted the main points. Finally we get to choose what reading we have to focus on in the research number 5.

Research Assignment #3

Govan, S. Y. “Connections, Links, and Extended Networks: Patterns in Octavia Butler’s Science Fiction,”

• New type of science fiction
• Psionic
• Black protagonist
• West Africa history (culture)
• Slaves brought to america, replicated in the relationship of mutants
• Erasing racism
• Super human versus regular human

“Imagine new ways of thinking about people and power”. Butler wrote about power because the limitations she had in her time. That’s why she created the characters based on power, more specific a female black protagonist. And his point is created a world where people are equally.

Govan, S. Y. “Homage to Tradition: Octavia Butler Renovates the Historical Novel,”

• Slave narrative
• Linking science fiction into injecting historical narrative, specific related to the African-American experience.

"Butlers Wild Seed and Kendred are rich texts which nearly define the junction where the historical novel, the slave narrative, and science fiction meet”. Govan central point is how Butler create the African-American history into a fiction with these immoral characters.

Salvaggio, R. “Octavia Butler and the Science-Fiction Heroine,”

• Feminist
• Strong black female protagonist
• Sexist and racist environment
• Goal is freedom
• Fight within the power structure to change the power

“Her heroines are black women who inhabit racially mixed societies”. In other words, Anyanwu is the song black female protagonist of the novel.

Research Assignment #4

Holden, R.J. “‘I began writing about power because I had so little’

• The struggle between the two main character, a man and a women.
• Feminist
• The tradition of African mythology
• slave narrative
• Racism
• “Doro, originally born a Nubian, has lived for four thousand years by literally taking over other people’s bodies, moving from one to another as necessary. For most of his life he has been breeding people in an attempt to create a race of telepaths.” In other words, his ambition for create a powerful race.
• “Initially, Mary’s choices in life, and in any identity she adopts, are severely limited by the racism and sexism of 1970’s America”. Butler wrote her novel in a time where females were very limited and black people.

Duchamp, L.T. “‘Sun Woman’ or ‘Wild Seed?’

• “Sun Women or Wild Seed” was Anyanwu.
• Literature has a limitless condition for creativity. Present day power is represented in the amount of money which you own, who you know and perhaps the area in which you reside. In "Wild Seed" power was much more than being a healer, it represented the will of changing form as one pleased, the ability to make others' whom are considered family and simply the idea of escaping when it is in correct, without committing suicide as people presently do.
• Anyanwu and Doro had a struggle for power

Research Assignment #5

Alaimo, S. “Skin Dreaming”: The Bodily Transgressions of Fielding Burke, Octavia Butler, and Linda Hogan,”:

• Mind over Body
• Darwin "Survival of the Fittest"
• Romance, separate from nature
• Descartes, mind (Doro) charge body (Anyanwu)
• Anyanwu's transgressions
• Anyanwu body cannot be read when she turns into an animal
• Ecofeminis, she escapes into nature

Journal Entry #7

We discussed in groups about the important point of our review. Later, we share with the classes what we learned about the review. Also, we review the research paper proposal.

Journal Entry #9

Today in class, we create our first draft of the theme. Also, we reviewed the feedback of the teacher on our proposal, and we fixed it. And we submit our working thesis statement.

Journal Entry #10

Today, we did the second draft of the articles our group section. Together we revised the plot. Also, we worked in our Research Paper.

Research Assignment #11

Today we finally finish editing our article for Wild Seed. After we revise our final draft and check the comments gave from the teacher.