Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower is often read as a dystopian story overwhelmed by bleakness and despair. It is unquestionable that Butler intends to give us a warning against capitalist society which tends to enlarge the schisms between the rich and the poor with the irreparable consequence of extreme marginalization of the working class and the poor in the near future. While violent events dominate the story, Butler aims to criticize the harmful conditions of the poor that capitalist society has caused and will cause in the future. The violence here refers to the systemic violence, in Slavoj Žižek's term, caused by the capitalist mechanism. The capitalist violence sweeps those whose bodies resist capitalism or can not be regulated by capitalism, abandoning them in the dystopian world. Lauren, the protagonist, who once lived in a small community at the brink of collapse, is forced to travel in the dystopian world after she lost all her family and friends. It is argued in this paper that Butler deliberately takes an embodied narrative strategy which consists in describing the protagonist's lived experience to present a possible apocalyptic future. Walking in the chaotic world in her journey in order to look for a better future, Lauren's moving body undergoes an orgy of violence. The baptism of violence facilitates Lauren's structuring of new subjectivity through the agency generated by her new kinesthetic experience. Violence unfolds her utopian dream to build a community based on her religious belief- Earthseed. While the novel could be read as a dystopian story, its dystopian elements point to "alternative and better ways of living," to borrow Krishan Kumar's words.