ALIENS

The most alien thing Lilith has to deal with is the lack of humans she’s come in contact with.  In class, we had a lot of people commenting that they assumed “Lilith’s Brood” was some sort of vampire book or some other supernatural characters of some sort would be opposite Lilith.   She’s put in surprisingly human situations, or at least situations that the reader is familiar with, but without humans.  This can probably be attributed to the fact that her race was studied by the Oankali prior to her capture. She’s forced into familiar situations, but seems to be the most distraught by her inability to come in contact with her fellow humans.

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  1. Ashley said:

    I think that not being around other humans is a real problem for Lilith. Because she can’t relate to other humans, and their reactions to the Oankali, she has to depend one the Oankali for everything. She has to deal with not being allowed outside or to get food on her own. She isn’t allowed to have paper. And when they don’t explain things to her, she has to accept their terms even if she doesn’t understand why. Having another human being around, might help (except we see how much could go wrong- like with Titus).

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