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Well, I really don't know if we are born evil or good.  The first reason, if following in logic sense, of human reaction should be need for survival. The reason may also be the goal, which is success to live longer and better. In that sense, we are born more like good. But if you say that we are born with good nature and evil nature, that makes more sense as a comprehensive answer to all human beings' nature. After all, there are many people, if given sufficient food and comfort, would like to help others and some would see others' pain as fun.

About change, I have a link for an advertisment of US campain.

Despite the politcal intention inside or outside of US, this advertisment talks about the result of change and the use of warning.

Change itself occurs every moment, and with a series of reasons (that we can find), certain results turn out. And people would like to predict the result, because they want to control the direction of everything and don't want these things to trigger bad results. And people want to make such prediction to warn us now, that what we should do and what we shouldn't do.

But there is always another explaination for the cause and effect: Predestination. It said that no matter how you want to change the process or details in the big system, you can't change the result and the fate is designed at the first place. It sounds disappointing, but also relieving. We don't have trials to prove these assumptions. In a lot of books of time travelling, some of the writers also express this idea, that even you can change the said-to-be key factors of one event, you still can't turn the wheel of fortune.

Another thing about the Parable of the Sower, is the historical heroism.(I don't know if it is the right word for it.) It states that the history is always changed, or the important events are always decided by the heroes, not the people or everyone in the society. In this book however, it shows a power of individual which might be able to change the history. Lauren is a normal girl. She is not the president of Unite States, and she is not Jesus who have the power from God. If she is able to assemble people and create a great change in this world, it might show that a single person can have the ability to change the world, or affect the wheel of fortune. How does that sound....