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Earth
Earth represents both humanity’s past and future, illustrating humans’ self-destructive capacity while also presenting hope for the future and showing how humans remain drawn toward home. The novel begins in what seems to be the…
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Food
Food is both necessity for life and also an expression of human culture, and in Dawn it symbolizes the things that the alien Oankali don’t understand about humans. Initially, the food that Lilith gets in…
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