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Barbara Kingsolver has inquired into the various perspectives and problems of environment and society. Flight Behavior (2012) can be defined as a way of project and literary practice of Kingsolver’s ‘Rewriting Genesis.’ The goal is the genesis of a new world through metamorphosis of the ecosystem. In her novel, the importance of the son Prestone stands out, showing his role not as simply a child but more like Adam in the Bible, or takes responsibility for creation of Heaven and Earth like Abraham. Based on the biological kinship, it has a rippling effect like Butterfly Effect to expand into a much greater system. The ecosystem that Kingsolver suggests is an ideal community of human and the nature which moves toward the ecological inhabitation and harmony, in that it is not a habitat for women only but a sustainable habitation for future generations. To induce a change, it is inevitable to transform or overturn it, as Dellarobia, the desperate wife and perfect female, did. Kingsolver wants us to show a possible way through writing a new genesis with help of our kinship community.
