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Butler saw that the reality was that people just cant grasp the pain and experiences felt in the past so she took it upon herself to write in the truth that the past is not beautiful and peaceful its really grim and not sometime we should sugar coat or ignore and instead use it as a platform to achieve that more just and peaceful world

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she was upset her family wasn't included in stories so she decide to do it her self

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especially in the time period she was alive; she still went through segregation as my grandmother did

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-jackson^

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Octavia Butler didn't seem to want to put up with anyone's bull; seems like a strong and important part of character that a Black woman writing she stories she does needs

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Butler understood the idea that without the past, even if it was filled with rock bottoms, she wouldn't exist. She understood that the future is the product of the past no matter how much a person would want it to change. Also legacy wise, it's a common story that is almost slept on when people say that people with legacy's started off struggling with their craft. Most people remember them for the greats, but behind the great things accomplished there's always the journey getting to the point. Generally, she shared a lot of life experiences through her books that weren't shared so much in her time.

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Octavia Butler was really upset about the fact that her family, grandmother wasn't written in stories, as they were survivors, HEROS. Her emotional understanding was really powerful that in the present it's more emphasized than history understanding which was her goal.

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Camilo Garduno
She wanted people to understand history not only view it in order to make change.

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she reached for the mental state and wanted people to understand at as a emotion or feeling- noel

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She wanted to focus on the feeling of slavery and not just the facts that we are learning in school

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Emotional understanding was more prominent in kindred than historical understanding because it is one thing to learn facts but it’s another to experience or feel certain events.

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I like how Butler reached for emotional understanding instead of historical understanding.

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The idea that history eventually repeats itself if we don't learn from it is not a new idea, nor is it exclusive to Butler's work. However, it is with her own heritage and experiences that she makes this idea her own and presents these ideas in her own way that she translates her work into a criticism of the world today and how it can show patterns with the modern era and the past.

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Octavia Butler didn't wanna just leave and finish off her life with her own legacy, but she wanted to extend it to other people that wrote and could relate. She taught them heavily with her writing; including a lesson/idea lead by change. It's kind of like you are the center of all the changes around you, you are the cause, or they are the cause of changes within yourself. Also its crazy how she predicted the pandemic.

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I think her work and the way they created the worlds laid the groundwork for many things we see today and will see - chris

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-A’Daesha (I forgot to put my name )

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I believe that what goes around comes around again . So history repeats its self . And I think she understands that . But I do agree with someone’s past history can give an understanding on someone else’s future . If that’s understandable

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Butler seemed to predict  some things by using the past -johan

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She changed the meaning of sci-fi, and introduced different audiences.

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her ideas imagine the future to warn the readers about the things we need to avoid - caio

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time is a huge factor because we can visualize the past present and a little bit of the future

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she predicted the future back in the past -noel

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Camilo Garduno
Octavia Butler was the first black woman to be published which gave her the name Afrofuturist.

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She takes the saying "history repeats itself" to another level

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The future is based upon the past

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Daya
People were about to predict the future back  in the past

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I think that Octavia Butler was a really inspirational woman for all the african american community. Many writers that do afrofuturism started reading Octavia's stories, which created hope for african american people to be more influencial in the world that in this time is comming to being true.

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The idea that the past can be used to predict the future is both beautiful and frightening.

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Butler predicted many events in the future, by using the past.

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Her ideas are timeless; spans the past, present and future- Jackson