PARABLE OF THE SOWER SUMMARY - SYLLABUS 2018
PARABLE OF THE SOWERSUMMARYParable of the Sower is conveniently divided into four years: 2024, 2025, 2026, and 2027. These divisionsprovide a handy-dandy way for us to trace what happens in the novel.We meet Lauren Olamina when she's growing up in Robledo, a fictional town in southern California.Robledo's a gated community, although it's kind of just a neighbourhood with a wall around it. It's notlike the people in Robledo are particularly well off—kind of the opposite, in fact.Lauren is a cool girl with hyper empathy syndrome, which means she feels others' pain and pleasure.That seems to make her both more vulnerable and more compassionate to others.She also totally wants to start her own religion. But we're getting ahead of ourselves.In 2024, Lauren gets baptized—even though she doesn't believe in her father's Baptist religion—andgets inspired by Alicia Leal, an astronaut who dies on Mars. Lauren writes in her journal and observesthe early signs that the gated community where she lives is falling apart: for example, the suicide of oneof the residents, M rs. Sims, shows that not all is well. This year is just sort of the basis or starting pointof novel. It establishes where Lauren is before anything really gets underway.In 2025, a lot more starts to happen. Amy Dunn, a little girl in the community, accidentally starts a fireand later dies from a stray bullet shot through the gate—maybe a little foreshadowing going on here?The residents of Robledo hold target practice to help train everyone in what to do during an emergencyor attack. This all sounds good in theory, but in practice, Lauren's not convinced that these measures candefend Robledo from the drug addicts and robbers and other threats living beyond the gate.So Lauren tells Joanne, her best friend, that they need to prepare better for emergencies and learnsome survival skills—you know, since maybe the neighbourhood will be destroyed. Change is coming,Lauren predicts—but Joanne won't listen. In fact, Joanne tattles on her, and as a result, Lauren's fathertells her to keep calm and not carry on.Then thieves start breaking into the neighbourhood. Bad sign, right?While all this is going on, Lauren finds comfort writing her verses. She's named her religion Earthseed,and she's committed to spreading it someday in the future. Keith, her brother, has other plans: he keepssneaking off beyond the community's gate, playing at being a grown-up and sending his family intochaos. Sometimes he comes back bearing money as a gift for Cory, Lauren's stepmother, but we get thefeeling life is headed downhill for him pretty fast.
Now it's 2026—Happy New Year? Keith is still living outside, but Lauren susses it out from him that he'sinvolved in crime, even murder, to stay alive. Yeah, well, pretty soon, her parents have to go downtownto identify Keith's dead body. Things are changing, all right.There are more and more break-ins as thieves continue robbing the neighbourhood. Lauren sees thatit's only a matter of time before Robledo is destroyed. The community starts holding watches at night,but thieves still bust in.Joanne's family, seeing all this danger, leaves for the company town of Olivar, where they think thefuture might be better—though really, it just seems like going into debt slavery. Lauren decides thatwhen she turns eighteen, she'll leave Robledo of her own volition and head north to spread Earthseed.But now guess what? Lauren's father, Reverend Olamina, goes missing. This seems to be pretty muchthe last straw. Things are falling apart pretty bad now for everyone.Okay, we're at 2027, the final year in the novel. In July, Robledo gets destroyed. Yup, goodbye Robledo.Lauren was right all along.Lauren loses her family and her pretty unimportant boyfriend Curtis. Did we forget to mention him?Good thing he's pretty unimportant. Anyway, Lauren flees north, but not before picking up Harry andZahra from the neighbourhood as allies. She already knew Harry a little bit from the target practicesessions, but Zahra had been living under her oppressive husband's thumb, so Lauren hadn't had muchof a chance to meet her before now.Anyway, the three of them are now refugees from Robledo, migrating north in hopes of a better future.Lauren also hopes to spread Earthseed. The three have a few possessions on their backs, enough thatstrangers will approach them for help sometimes. Initially, Lauren turns these beggars down. But it's nottoo much longer before Lauren decides to help people instead.The first time Lauren and company help others is when they're refilling their water at a commercialwater station. Lauren trips an attacker who's trying to take advantage of a mixed ethnicity family. That'sTravis, Natividad, and their child Dominic, a.k.a. Domingo. Before they join up fully, Lauren has to helpthem out again by shooting dead an attacking dog, but after that, Travis, Natividad, andDominic/Domingo are a solid part of what's becoming Lauren's traveling Earthseed group.Earthseed, you'll recall from a few paragraphs up, is the religion Lauren's founding. Its main tenet isthat God is Change. Earthseed advises humanity to recognize the importance of change and use thatwisdom to help one another survive (as a short-term goal) and to settle on other worlds in outer space(as a long-term goal).Lauren lays out a lot of her belief system to Travis and Zahra as they flee northward. Travis finds thereligion thought-provoking, and Zahra likes the idea of helping people, but they all still don't know forsure where they're headed. Just north, basically, where they're looking for paying jobs and safety.Pretty soon, they meet this old guy named Bankole, who helps them rescue a pair of sisters, Jill and AllieGilchrist, from earthquake rubble. Bankole and Lauren hit it off romantically, despite their age difference(or maybe because of it?), and it turns out that he has three hundred acres of land in northernCalifornia. Great, let's go there, Lauren pretty much thinks. Jill and Allie slowly warm up to Lauren's
Earthseed ideas and head north with her and her crew. It isn't much longer before they find an orphanboy, Justin Rohr, to adopt. Allie in particular takes care of him.On their way north, the Earthseed group picks up some more people: Emery Solis and her daughter Torijoin, desperate for any help they can get. Emery is basically a runaway debt slave from an agribusinessconglomerate. Grayson Mora and his daughter Doe join up soon, as well. We don't ever learn muchabout those two, but what's interesting about these last four characters is that they're all "sharers":they all have hyper empathy syndrome, like Lauren.In October 2027, Lauren and her followers walk past a dangerous fire set by these crazy painted-facesdrug addicts who show up every so often in the novel to provoke meaningless trouble. The group ofmigrating Earthseed refugees make it to Bankole's land, and Lauren asks everyone to commit to eitherstaying there to build a community, or heading on.Wouldn't you know it? Everybody decides to stay. They hold a service to honour all those they have lost,and they decide to name this new place Acorn. There had to be a happy ending after all that trouble,right?CHAPTER 1 SUMMARYSaturday, July 20, 2024 The book opens with our protagonist Lauren's fifteenth birthday. Happy birthday, Lauren. Lauren recounts a dream for us. It's a recurring dream she has when she tries to please herfather and pretend nothing unusual is going down. The dream has two parts. In the first part, Lauren's teaching herself to fly in some place similar to her home, and she'strying to avoid fire. The second part is a repeat of a real-life conversation Lauren had with her stepmother at ageseven. The conversation focuses on the stars, which are visible to our narrator and her stepmother. Stepmother says the city lights used to blot the stars out. Lauren says that's okay: she prefers the stars to any city lights that used to exist. Um, folks, if you hadn't caught on, that means there used to be cities before Lauren was born,but now there aren't any, so the stars are easy to see. Stepmother replies that she wants the city lights back soon, but at least the stars are free.
CHAPTER 2 SUMMARYSunday, July 21, 2024 This chapter describes Lauren's baptism. Lauren starts us off by saying she no longer believes in her father's God—but she's too cowardlyto resist being initiated into his Baptist church. People from Lauren's neighbourhood, led by her father, get up early in the morning to go acrosstheir town of Robledo to a church with a real baptistery. That's where Lauren, her brothers Keithand Marcus, and four other kids will be baptized as a group to save money on clean water.Water is an expensive thing in this novel. Lauren describes her brother Keith as dumb, but she says he's her stepmother's favourite. Hedodges his responsibilities and wants to move to Los Angeles. Getting to the church requires riding bikes as a group for safety. All the adults are armed. The group rides out beyond the protective neighbourhood walls and past poor homeless peopleand dead bodies. Many of the homeless are dangerous and carry untreated diseases. Lauren explains that seeing the suffering of the poor outside the neighbourhood walls triggers acondition she has: hyper empathy syndrome. Lauren's syndrome makes her share the pain or pleasure of other people she observes. Lauren calls this sharing delusional. Before her first period, she'd even start bleeding if she sawsomeone else bleeding. Thankfully, that part of the syndrome has worn off by now. Lauren says she has the syndrome as a result of her mother's abuse of the drug Paracetco duringpregnancy. Lauren's family keeps her syndrome a secret. She doesn't want people to know how easy it is tohurt her. The baptism goes as planned. Lauren muses about God. She says a lot of people believe in God as a kind of big cop whopunishes people. Others believe in God as a force, or as nature. Lauren thinks God is something else, something different from all these conceptions. Lauren also ponders a recent storm in the Gulf region. It killed more than 700 people, and shewonders if the people affected by the storm still have faith after all the destruction.
CHAPTER 3 SUMMARYTuesday, July 30, 2024 Lauren writes about an astronaut who died on the latest Mars mission. People in theneighbourhood say traveling to Mars is a waste of money when people on earth can't affordbasic necessities. Lauren also writes about the cost of water increasing. It's fashionable to be dirty since no onecan afford to clean their clothes. Lauren also writes about: the last big Window Wall television in the neighbourhood has gonedark. It was operated by the Yannis family, who charged admission for people to watch it. Most of the neighbourhood’s news now comes from radio.Saturday, August 3, 2024 The dead astronaut, a chemist named Alicia Catalina Godinez Leal, wanted to be buried onMars, but the Secretary of Astronautics has decided that her body must be brought back toEarth. Meanie. Lauren's father says space is a distraction and a waste of money, but Laurenargues it could be humanity's future.Monday, August 12, 2024 Mrs. Sims' body is discovered: she committed suicide a few days prior. She was robbed in thelast month, and just one week before her death, her son, grandkids, and some other relativeswere killed in an arson fire, perhaps started because of a new illegal drug that makes peoplebecome pyromaniacs. Lauren is surprised at Mrs. Sims' suicide because the woman believed suicide would be punishedby eternal condemnation in hell. Lauren wonders if Mrs. Sims really believed anything at all.Saturday, August 17, 2024 Our narrator finds herself still thinking about Mrs. Sims and the dead astronaut. Lauren says sheneeds to compile the verses she's been writing about God since she was twelve. The verses say that God is Change. They also say that God exists to be shaped and isn't to beprayed to. Lauren feels she has to do something to spread her religion.Wednesday, November 6, 2024 The new president-elect, Christopher Donner, says he'll dismantle the moon and Mars programsand privatize near-space ones. In hopes of getting more people employed, he also plans tosuspend regulations protecting workers. Lauren's father, despite his earlier support of Donner, doesn't vote for the president-elect,saying instead that politicians make him sick.
CHAPTER 4 SUMMARYSaturday, February 1, 2025 A three-year-old in the neighbourhood, Amy Dunn, burns down a garage. The adults manage to put out the fire, following an emergency plan. No one calls the firedepartment, as that would require paying fees. Amy's mom is named Tracy. She gave birth to Amy at age thirteen. Her 27-year-old uncle, UncleDerek, had been raping her for years. The neighbourhood men ran Uncle Derek out of town as aresult, but no one particularly helps Tracy and Amy—except for Lauren, who asks her mother ifAmy can start school early. The neighbourhood kids go to Lauren's mother for school, and Lauren helps out with teaching. Lauren's mother says Amy can start early if Lauren takes charge of her.Wednesday, February 19, 2025 Two cousins of Mrs. Sims, Wardell Parrish and Rosalee Payne, move into their deceasedrelative's home. They feel the community has stolen from the house, but Lauren's fatherexplains that people were just taking back the items they gave her after she was robbed. Lauren's father also explains that the community is close-knit, and the people in it trust oneanother. The cousins don't really buy it, and Lauren decides she doesn't trust them.Saturday, February 22, 2025 A group from the neighbourhood, led by Lauren's father and Jay Garfield, go out for targetpractice. Lauren muses about Richard Moss' family. He's an engineer for a commercial water companywho has invented his own religion by combining the Old Testament and historical West Africanpractices. He has three wives and believes God wants males to rule over females. Lauren wonders if people in the future will be stuck in this version of slavery, or in the Presidentelect's version of it. The group rides out beyond the neighbourhood walls to the canyons. Lauren used to practiceshooting birds or squirrels. Killing them triggered her hyper empathy only a little. Lauren doesn't know if she'd be able to kill a person, or what would happen to her if she did. Lauren's father leads the community in gun training. He says the police can't protect theneighbourhood, so the residents have to do it themselves. Lauren worries about what will happen once her irresponsible brother, Keith, gets his hands onweapons.
The group encounters a wild dog. Aura Moss shoots at it and almost hits Michael Talcott. Laurentries to calm Aura down. Looking for the dog, Lauren's father discovers a family of corpses. He tells the group to headhome. On the way back, Lauren's father shoots a dog but doesn't kill it. Lauren shoots the dog to put itout of its misery. She feels pain as a result of her hyper empathy syndrome, but she's okay. Curtis, Lauren's boyfriend, is impressed by her nonchalantly killing the dog. The experience dazes Lauren.CHAPTER 5 SUMMARYSaturday, March 2, 2025 It rains—a rare event. People put buckets out to obtain free water and to protect against leakyroofs.Monday, March 3, 2025 The rain continues. Lauren enjoys it.Tuesday, March 4, 2025 Amy dies. Somehow she's shot by outsiders firing through the neighbourhood’s metal gate. It'san accidental hit, since people can't see through the gate from outside. Lauren feels she's living on an island surrounded by sharks.Wednesday, March 5, 2025 Lauren feels sad about Amy's death. She talks it over with her friend Joanne Garfield as the twoeat lunch in Lauren's bedroom. It's a place where Lauren has some privacy. Amy's death inspires Lauren to talk with Joanne about the lack of safety in the neighbourhood.Lauren says Amy's death was a wake-up call, and that there will be more wake-up calls in thefuture. Lauren reminds Joanne of all the risks they face, such as disease and the drug that makes peoplewant to start fires. Lauren also tells Joanne that they need to do something about their predicament. Joanne thinks that at fifteen, there's nothing they can do. But Lauren insists that bigger troubleis coming: she thinks the wall or gate will eventually be broken down and their community willbe destroyed. Joanne reacts with denial, saying that maybe Donner will improve things.
Lauren continues to insist that things will get worse and tells Joanne that they need to prepare.Lauren advises Joanne to read books on survival in the wilderness, handling guns, treatingmedical emergencies, and so on. Joanne isn't sure that reading books will be any help. Lauren remains insistent and gives her abook about plants, telling her to take notes on it. The book belongs to Lauren's father.Thursday, March 6, 2025 The rain stops. Lauren wonders how many years will pass before they see rain again.CHAPTER 6 SUMMARYSaturday, March 8, 2025 Joanne tells her parents about the talk she had with Lauren, and the 'rents tell Lauren's father. Dad comes into Lauren's bedroom to have a talk with her, and he tells her not to frightenpeople. Lauren worries she that won't be able to trust anyone again, and she's glad she wasn't moreopen with Joanne. For example, Lauren didn't share her religion with her. Lauren defends herself during the talk with her father by saying she was simply telling the truth.Her father says the effect is only to make people panic. He's relieved that she wasn't trying totalk Joanne into running, away, and he makes Lauren promise not to scare anyone else. Shepromises. Lauren also comes up with an idea: people should prepare emergency kits in case they have toleave home quickly—but they can call the kits earthquake packs so that the idea won't be soscary. Lauren's father says it's a good idea, and he also encourages her to teach people rather thanfrighten them. He suggests that Lauren teach her kindergartners out of the plant book sheloaned Joanne. He also suggests that she ask Mr. Hsu and Mr. and Mrs. Montoya about teachingmartial arts classes. Finally, Lauren's father tells her he'll show her where some important things are buried in thebackyard in sealed containers.Sunday, March 9, 2025 Lauren's father preaches a sermon about Noah and the ark. The point is that if Noah is going tobe saved, he has a lot of hard work to do—just as the community in Robledo does. Joanne asks Lauren if they're still friends. Lauren only says they're not enemies, and she tellsJoanne to get the plant book back to her father.
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 Thieves come into the neighbourhood and steal from gardens. Lauren's dad is inspired to organize regular watches. Armed pairs will patrol the neighbourhoodall night in shifts. Lauren overhears her father and stepmother talking about the patrols. Cory, the stepmother,thinks that the watchers should call the police rather than shoot at thieves. But Lauren's fathersays the neighbourhood can't afford to pay the police, and that the police are only interestedafter a crime has been committed. Lauren sees Cory as being in denial like Joanne. Cory quotes the Bible to Lauren's father: Thou shalt not kill. In response, he cites a passage thattells people to defend their families.Saturday, March 15, 2025 The neighbourhood watch is now set up. The watchers meet weekly to practice martial arts andshooting. Because of the thieves, Lauren says, people are preparing for the worst. She thinks theneighbourhood watch is progress.Saturday, March 29, 2025 Thieves strike again. This time, they try to steal rabbits (the Moss family is into raising rabbits forsale). The watchers, Alejandro Montoya and Julia Lincoln, spot the thieves and shoot warning shotsinto the air. The thieves flee, abandoning the rabbits, a rope, a ladder, a pistol, and more. Cory criticizes Lauren's father's plan by pointin
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