Novel Analysis – Fledgling by Octavia ButlerIntroduction. The novel follows the story of Shori Matthews, a 53-year-old vampire with a special ability to last longer in sunlight than her vampire relatives due to her darker coloring. skin. Shortly after waking up, Shori meets a construction worker named Wright Hamlin who helps her along the way. A human woman named Brook became another important helper and source for Shori, who in turn helped her and another young woman named Celia, a darker-skinned person like Shori, but fully human. There was also another character who had little physical presence, but still had an impact throughout the story. She was a middle-aged woman named Theodora Harden, and she was also adored by Shori. This story takes place in modern-day Washington State. There is a feeling of connection despite the fantasy elements incorporated into the story. The story takes us through the various small towns of Washington for most of the book, and it even moves south to a small town in California. The book does not fail to incorporate familiar elements like the mention of Seattle or Los Angeles, building a fictional community near non-fictional areas. Octavia Butler does a good job maintaining enough realism that the story doesn't seem as far-fetched as stories of magical kingdoms and beings, but rather creatures that could potentially exist and live among us. The main conflict associated with the story of "Fledgling" is the young vampire Shori Matthews who constantly struggles to regain the memories she lost in an accident at her home in a fairly large community that was in the process of gaining access to new knowledge. Shori accompanies the broken remains of her memory with Wright, Brook and Celia middle of paper...... subtly for Shori. The novel is written in the first person from Shori's point of view. She gathers most of her information from male members of her family and other male Ina communities and even references her rare contact with female Ina throughout the story until the end of the book. Finally, there is the shadow, which in Shori's case is her unconscious, primal state. When she is in great pain and in need of intense healing, she loses control of herself, attacks and consumes the living creature closest to her to help her recover. This is shown early in the novel when we learn that she ate a human while facing weakness, and a feeling of remorse is felt by the conscious self. Shori Matthews is a dynamic character who displays the different archetypes in one way or another, strongly or weakly..