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Butler's novel really got me thinking about the future of cultural change. Is this what we are headed to? I had always thought that we were constantly improving, and now I'm beginning to see that maybe its not that we are improving, but just changing. A lot of the warfare that was going on in Butler's novel is not something that I can't imagine. We aren't that far off, there are parts of the world that situations similar to this are happening. I just hope that people aren't evil enough to allow this to happen.

I think that one individual can have a very strong influence on a culture. A culture is a whole group of people and although every person contributes something to the group, it takes one strong leader to really influence all the people. In Parable of the Sower, Lauren's followers were all different. Each person contributed something, however, it was Lauren that guided the people and kept the community together, allowing it to evolve and become strong.They all looked to her for guidance.