![]() Lilith asks the alien if it is a male or a female. He looks nothing like a human and instead is covered with moving tentacles all over his body. However, when the alien brightens the light in Lilith's room so that she can see him clearly, she is afraid. Lilith is not afraid to look at him she is more afraid of the unknown. The alien tells Lilith that she has to look at him when she is ready. He notifies her that he is not a man or a human being-he is an extraterrestrial. This being tells Lilith that he is here to take her outside of her room so that she can begin a new life. Instead, there is a shadowy figure standing in the corner of her room. She hears someone call her name but realizes that it does not come from above as it usually did. Lilith sits down to wait for her captors to begin to speak with her. Eventually, she convinced him that she was not dangerous and began to teach him English. He did not speak English and was terrified. Once, they put a child named Sharad in her room with her. As time passed, her captors' questions became more complex and became more like conversations with Lilith. During her second Awakening, she answered her captors' questions. She began unwittingly speaking to herself, afraid that she was losing her mind. They left her in her room for a long time, and the silence got to her. She remembers her previous Awakenings: during the first Awakening, she did not answer her captors' questions. She is twenty-six, she used to have a husband and son who died in a car crash, and there was a deadly war that wiped out most of the human race.Īs Lilith sits in her room, she performs exercises to pass the time and takes many naps. She thinks about her theoretical answers to these questions and we learn more about Lilith's character and surroundings. She knows that her captors will begin asking her questions soon. Lilith eats her food and looks around her room for a means of escape despite the fact that she knows it is futile. ![]() She knows that her captors probably performed surgery on her and she is uncomfortable at the thought of what they did to her body while she was unaware. She tries not to think about the long scar on her abdomen which appeared suddenly during one of her Awakenings. Lilith sees that her captors have given her clothing and she puts it on with excitement. On the table, Lilith recognizes the food her captors always give her: "the usual lumpy cereal or stew, of no recognizable flavor" (4). There is a platform that Lilith just woke up on, meant to be a bed another, taller platform that functions as a table and a bathroom, where there is a toilet, sink, and shower. She is in a dimly-lit room with very little furnishings. This time, Lilith takes notes of her surroundings when she wakes up. Sometimes, they speak to her, and she can hear their voices from the ceiling. She does not know who her captors are or what they look like. Though this is not the first time she has Awakened in this room, she is not aware yet that she is on an alien ship. "Womb," the first part of Octavia Butler's Dawn, opens in Lilith Iyapo's perspective as she wakes up on an alien ship.
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