English literature paragraph: Write a 250-word response to the week’s reading prompt: Set on a foreign planet inhabited by insect-like beings, “Bloodchild” is a coming-of-age story, raising provocativ


English literature paragraph: Write a 250-word response to the week’s reading prompt: Set on a foreign planet inhabited by insect-like beings, “Bloodchild” is a coming-of-age story, raising provocative questions about sex roles, self-sacrifice, colonization, and species- interdependence. How does this theme of the coming-of-age story function throughout the short story?

This is the book

Octavia Butler, Bloodchild and Other Stories (1995) Read: Butler, “Bloodchild”