Sentence Analysis: “It was an honor to have T’Gatoi in the family but it was hardly a novelty.” (Butler, 53) Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild” portrays the odd and disturbing relationship between a human boy, Gan, and an alien (Tlic) creature by the name of T’Gatoi. T’Gatoi is the motherly, commanding alien creature of the story's world who takes a parental role over Gan. The sentence, “It was an honor to have T’Gatoi in the family but it was hardly a novelty.”, depicts how although T’Gatoi was a familial aspect of their life, there was something not entirely conventional in the way she was associated with them. The sentence reflects T’Gatoi’s long-standing involvement with Gan’s family and foreshadows how their relationship isn’t necessarily moral to most people’s standards or appropriate in any way. The seemingly innocent phrasing of the excerpt copies the manipulative persona of T’Gatoi and how she uses her closeness to Gan’s family to get what she wants. T’Gatoi’s relationship with...