I read Lilith’s Brood. Lilith’s
Brood is the Xenogenesis trilogy by Octavia Butler. There are three novels in
Lilith’s Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites and Imago. I choose to read Dawn, the
first story in the series. The story is about Lilith Iyapo. Lilith is a human
woman that awakened by the alien, called the Oankalis. She woke up centuries after the war. The
Oankalis want to interbreed with human so they made Lilith to be a leader of a
group of human which the Oankalis helped.
In this story, Lilith is a middleman
between humans and the Oankalis. Most of human doesn’t want to interbreed with
the Oankalis and they want freedom. Lilith also wants to have freedom like
other human but she also has some relationship with the Oankali. It is
difficult for her to solve the problem.
Lilith’s Brood does reflect about
the majoritarian culture. It is one of the important problem now too because the
world is open wide for everyone to show their opinion in any way. People have
freedom to think and decide what to believe on their own. This is important to someone
who has duty to control, take care, and solve the problem for large group of
people. For example, the government. The government needs to listen to the
thought of people in the country and manage everything to make everyone be able
to live together with peace.
Lilith’s Brood makes me wonder of
the world in the future. I am pretty sure that there are real aliens around the
galaxy and we are also aliens for them. What if the story comes true and all this
stuff will happen to human? For the time in the future, I think it will cause a
lot of problems but well, we have to find the way to live and survive. Now we
just have to wait and see.
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