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Blood Child

1.             An exploration of the human race as a resource to an alien species has been common place in literature before, however this short story dives deeper into it by proposing a situation in which both need each other to survive. The society has evolved from its past to connect and give more to the host’s role, rather than to use them solely as organisms. Another aspect that I particularly found interesting was the projection of the boy’s indecisiveness. He constantly questions his thoughts about the situation humans are in; that he is in. to myself this is crucial to the story, the boy having been raised in a society where this is already in place. This is all he knows, yet in such situations it always seems that the human mind seeks to question, that it is against nature to be content with what information is fed to you. While some of the descriptive language did rise an emotional response, I was more engrossed with the overall premise of an uncertain balance between enslav