29 pages 58 minutes read

Octavia E. Butler

Wild Seed

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

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Essay Topics

1.

Why does Anyanwu go with Doro after their first meeting? How do the two complement one another?

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What is Anyanwu’s sense of home and place, once she has left her West African homeland? 

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How does Doro’s attitude and role alter the ways in which one thinks of the traditional slave narrative? Is he a sympathetic character?