Award winning science fiction writer, Octavia E. Butler, brings the reader to an unknown time and place where Tlics, aliens with several limbs, dominate the human species. While some readers may look at this short story as a romance, it can also be interpreted as a horrifying tale of domestic violence and Stockholm Syndrome.
Gan, a human boy, is raised in a household where T'Gatoi, a woman Tlic, is part of the family. If this wasn't eerie enough, then the emotional attachment and sexual relations that the two share for each other will definitely keep the reader cringing. Butler creates a relationship between the two characters that display sexual abuse, child abuse and the psychological breakdown of an innocent human child.
Picture from: http://www.africanafrican.com/negroartist/Octavia%20Butler%20Literature/Bloodchild.jpg
No comments:
Post a Comment