English 124 Exam 1 Prep with Questions and Answers

English 124 Exam 1 Prep with Questions and Answers "I didn't want to accept you, Lilith. Not for Nikanj or for the work you'll do. I believed that because of the way human genetics were expressed in culture, a human male should be chosen to parent the first group. I think now that I was wrong." "Parent?" "That's the way we think of it. To teach, to give comfort, to feed and clothe, to guide them through and interpret what will be, for them, a new and frightening world. To parent." "You're going to set me up as their mother?" "Define the relationship in any way that's comfortable to you." ANSWER Spoken by Khaguyaht Dawn - Octavia Butler Theme: heirarchy "...They took stuff from men and women who didn't even know each other and put it together and made babies in women who never knew the mother or the father of their kid—and who maybe never got to know the kid. Or maybe they grew the baby in another kind of animal. They have animals they can adjust to—to incubate human fetuses, as they say. Or maybe they don't even worry about men and women. Maybe they just scrape some skin from one person and make babies out of it—cloning, you know. Or maybe they use one of their prints—and don't ask me what a print is. But if they've got on of you, they can use it tot make another you even if you've been dead for a hundred years and they haven' got anything at all left of your body. And that's just the start... ANSWER Spoken by Paul Titus Dawn- Octavia Butler Theme: humanity