In it, we are presented with a world significantly altered by plague, with characters socialized for a distanced society, technology replacing interaction and tradition, and careers created specifically for a world so marked by death. There are shades of this idea in How High We Go in the Dark. On the advent of her own apocalypse, such thinking develops into Lauren's Earthseed religion, based on the belief that God is Change. It took a plague to make some of the people realize that things could change." A lot of things changed for the survivors. But once they realized it wasn’t, they also realized there was a lot of vacant land available for the taking, and if they had a trade, they realized they could demand better pay for their work. "Some survivors thought the world was coming to an end. When discussing the bubonic plague, protagonist Lauren says this: Butler's Parable of the Sower came to me as I was reading this.
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