Characters
This is Lauren Olamina's father's occupation.
What is Reverend?
What is college professor?
This is at the top of the wall around the neighborhood where Lauren and her family live.
What is Lazor wire?
What is razor wire?
Lauren begins keeping this type of record in Chapter 1.
What is a journal?
The name Lauren gives to her new belief system.
What is Earthseed?
This family member leads the neighborhood community meetings.
Who is Lauren's father?
Lauren's best friend, who lives in the neighborhood.
Who is Joanne Garfield?
The year in which Parable of the Sower is set.
What is 2024-2026?
Lauren describes feeling other people's pain due to this condition.
What is hyperempathy?
According to Earthseed, this entity is defined as "Change."
What is God?
The neighborhood holds this event to celebrate a milestone at the start of the novel.
What is Baptism?
This character is Lauren's stepmother.
Who is Cory?
Outside the walls, the streets are controlled by these dangerous groups.
What are gangs?
What are drug addicts?
Lauren writes that she has been secretly preparing this type of bag.
What is a "go-bag"?
This is the core verse/phrase Lauren writes about Earthseed's central idea.
What is "God is Change"?
Lauren's father teaches the neighborhood children this subject on Saturdays.
What is shooting firearms?
This young man becomes one of Lauren's closest confidants and allies in the neighborhood.
Who is Curtis Talcott?
This city/region of California is where the neighborhood is located.
What is Robledo?
What is Southern California?
What is near Los Angeles?
Lauren writes about an increase in this type of danger leading to the creation of the neighborhood watch.
What is theft?
Lauren believes Earthseed's ultimate destiny is for humans to reach this place.
What is stars/outer space?
These are the two items that Keith takes with him as he leaves the neighborhood for the final time.
What are Cory's gun and the key to the wall?
These are the last names of the two people who moved into the neighborhood after Mrs. Sims's death
What are Payne and Parrish?
This addictive and dangerous drug causes users to become pyromaniacs.
What is Pyro?
Lauren's journal entries reveal that she has been writing these things that come to her while living in the neighborhood.
What are verses?
What are quotes?
What are ideas?
Lauren argues that God does not do this — unlike the God of traditional religion.
What is answer prayers?
What is intervene?
What is make changes?
This is who Cory and Lauren's father have to identify downtown.
Who is Keith?