Parable of the Sower

Part 1

100

What is there a shortage of in the United States

Water

200

What does Lauren need to choose between when someone else is in pain?

Her own feelings, or someone else's

Part 2

100

What is God in this book?

God is change

200

Why is Lauren so determined to improve her writing?

Lauren wants to improve her writing in order to find greater meaning in her religion.

Part 3

100

What is Laurens journal based on?

Earthseed

200

How are women portrayed in this society?

Weak

Part 4

100

What theory of Sigmund Freud’s is enforced by Lauren throughout this section?

Freud believed that the unconscious continues to influence behaviour even though people are unaware of these underlying influences.

200

What is the mental illness that affects Lauren physically and mentally throughout the novel?

Hyper empathy.

Part5

100

How does the higher class take advantage of the poor and oppressed?

Modern day slavery

200

When they get to the new land, what does the group find out?

Bankole's family is dead.