![]() When Gan understands this, he comes of age and leaves his childhood behind. Upholding his duty is critical not only to honoring T’Gatoi, but also to protecting his family, maintaining peace in the Preserve, and contributing to society. The protagonist is raped, experiences incestuous relationships, and is dominated. It is not until Gan considers his feelings in the context of all of the people around him that he is able to face his fear and bear the weight of his responsibility. Particularly in 'Bloodchild', the key theme is Butler's imposition of a female identity on a male character the narrator, Gan, narrates with a female perspective and he is also impregnated giving him the female's ability to carry a child or an egg as its host. ![]() When Gan witnesses the traumatic and gruesome birth involving Bram Lomas, it fills him with revulsion and dread. Though he has technical knowledge of how the birthing process occurs, he has never actually seen it and doesn’t fully understood the mortal risk to his own safety that it poses. At the start of the story, however, Gan has not yet truly reckoned with the sacrifices that will be demanded of him as the bearer of T’Gatoi’s offspring. Because of this, Gan feels great affection and trust for T’Gatoi. He was held by T’Gatoi within minutes of emerging from his mother Lien’s womb, was at least partially raised by her, and was educated on the process that he would have to undergo as soon as he was old enough to understand. Gan has been promised to T’Gatoi from birth to be the host for her parasitic eggs when she is ready to have children as a part of the social contract that maintains peace in the Preserve. He is a Terran teenager who lives in the protected shelter of the Preserve and is the mate of the Tlic female, T’Gatoi. Gan is the protagonist and narrator of the story.
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