One time I was alone downtown walking to a new pizza place to meet up with Robert with vague directions I called him but I knew he had been surfing so I wasnt surprised when he didnt answer ID: 576221
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My relationship with my ex-boyfriend, Robert, reminds me of the relationships that Terrans and Tlics have in Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild.Slide3
One time I was alone downtown walking to a new pizza place to meet up with Robert with vague directions.Slide4
I called him, but I knew he had been surfing, so I wasn’t surprised when he didn’t answer. Slide5
I started freaking out because I was in a relatively unfamiliar and bad part of town. Luckily, my friend called me and asked if I wanted to come over to her house and wait for Robert there.Slide6
In the end, he called me back, picked me up and we got our pizza.
In Bloodchild, Bram Lomas gets away from his
Tlic
for some reason, even though he needs
T’Khotgif
Teh
to survive.
T’Gatoi
came to his immediate rescue so he would last until his own
Tlic
could help him.Slide7
I remember sitting in my room about a week after Robert and I broke up listening to one of my favorite records, Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd.Slide8
Only then did it occur to me how much I was influenced and shaped by him. My music, my taste in TV shows, style of dress, and even the types of art that I enjoy
… all heavily influenced by who I spent the most time with; Robert.
Gan
grew to be proud of being ”chosen” to be a host. His mother constantly reminded him of how grateful he should be that
T’Gotai
takes care of them as well as she does. His belief and viewpoint on the entire relationship between the Terrans and Tlics was both because his mother and
T’Gotai
engrained that viewpoint into him.Slide9
In some way or another, I “lived” on Planet Robert, the people I hung out with weren’t the friends I had made myself, they were his. I rarely hung out with my own, and when I did, he made me feel bad for not spending my time with him.
Terrans live on The Preserve which is home to and run by the Tlics, Terrans are made to feel inferior to the Tlics through degrading and dehumanizing laws
and practices. Slide10
In many ways, looking back on my relationship, I have to admit the similarities between it and Bloodchild, especially between the changes in
Gan’s
perspective at the end.
Gan
witnesses something that he ”doesn’t want to see”. He sees firsthand how horrifying being a host truly is. In the end he still decides to be a host, even if it is only because he doesn’t want his little sister to have to endure what he just witnessed.
In my experience, I look back on my relationship with Robert and I realize it wasn’t the healthiest relationship. We fed off of each other, and yes, we did make each other happy, but I wonder how much of it was forced. However, in hindsight, I still don’t think I would’ve done anything differently. The years we were together were some of the best years and some of my fondest memories are with him.