Kindred By Octavia Butler

Slavery was the most inhumane practice in history where a human being rips off the right of being a human of another person. This brutal and manipulative operation was what many Africans had endured for decades in the Western world. After long periods of consistent resistance, going through different forms of slavery, they were given freedom and improved rights.Kindred by Octavia Butler is one of the fictional novels that truly portrays the cruel nature of slavery and the resilience of…...

Do you really want to know the truth? Are you ready? Can you handle a harrowing journey through time? Were people get hurt and kill for know reason. This harrowing journey that will change your life happens in Octavia Estelle Butler Kindred.In Kindred by Octavia Estelle Butler manipulation occurs throughout the book. In Kindred By Octavia Estelle Butler Manipulation occurs to Dana throughout the book. In Kindred by Octavia Butler manipulation occurs to the slaves. Thomas Weylin sold;"only three of…...

After learning about how badly slaves were treated in the ante bellum south, many people wonder as to why more slaves didn't run away or rebel. In the book, Kindred, Octavia Butler shows that the fear of running away and the consequences of getting caught were reasons to stay in slavery and not rebel. The fear of the possible effects prevented many slaves from attempting to run away. When the main character, Dana was planning to run away to meet…...

Octavia Butleris novel is categorized as science fiction because of the existence of time travel. However, the novel does not center on the schematics of this type of journey. Instead, the novel deals with the relationships forged between a Los Angeles woman from the 20th century, and slaves from the 19th century. Therefore, the mechanism of time travel allows the author a sort of freedom when writing this "slavery narrative" apart from her counterparts. Butler is able to judge the…...

To don on a mask and proceed through the day is nothing more than an act of survival in face of oppression. The brilliant works of Octavia Butler and Dambudzo Marechera explore the themes of survival through their characters performance of whiteness or in reaction of whiteness. Producing a complicated dynamic of power struggles of different types of interracial relationships. This forced assimilation whether willingly or not is a reaction to the racist society in which the characters inhabit, allowing…...

Life for Rufus in “Kindred” At the start of the novel “Kindred” by Octavia Butler, Rufus is portrayed as a son of a plantation owner. Rufus grew up without being educated because factors like distance from schools removed the need for schooling in the South. Only the wealthy could afford private tutors for their child, and the only tutor Rufus ever had was Kevin. Daughters of plantation owners never went to school or had private tutors. They were taught to…...

Most relevant character in “Kindred” Octavia Butler's novel “Kindred” contains many characters that have a lot of relevance to the story. For example: Dana, Alice, Rufus, and Tom Weylin. Rufus Weylin, though, has the most relevance to the novel. He establishes one of the settings of the novel and majorly contributes to the story as well. Rufus also impacts many characters in the story physically and mentally. When the reader initially meets Rufus, he is a young man. While his…...

In the fiction “Kindred,” the author Octavia Butler revealed the darkness of slavery, denounce the anti-humanity of racial oppression, the tragic slave life in nineteenth century was revealed. The main character Dana Franklin is a married black woman from California in 1970s, she time travels to the past several times to save her ancestor Rufus Weylin. While Dana Franklin stays and trys to survive in the slavery society at the Maryland plantation in the nineteenth century, she witnesses the tragic…...

Trust and sympathy go hand in hand, as without trust there is no sympathy. In the novel Kindred by Octavia Butler. The setting that the story is mainly based around is the early 1800s in Southern California during the slave era, and the one that the protagonist and the secondary protagonist - her husband originated from is Los Angeles in 1976 . Dana is the protagonist of the novel that is characterized in a sympathetic way throughout the novel, which…...

When we think of love, we think of something pure and beautiful. Although there are various stages of love, we assume that at the end of the day they all fall under the same category. We also believe that everyone we love is good because that’s why we care so deeply about them and you would be wrong to think that. Don’t believe me? Ask Dana, the main character of the science fiction novel, Kindred. In Kindred, Butler uses a…...

When were in position of power we usually lose our understanding of distinguishing the difference between being wrong and doing something because we “have to” we often forget there’s many ways to accomplish a certain goal. In the book Kindred by Octavia Butler, an African woman named Dana living in the 1976 time period travels back to 1819 a time where slavery is legal. Dana comes across her ancestors Tom & Rufus Weylin who are white men, and because of…...

Science fiction often connects with a wide range of people by authors writing about the human condition and how to fix or destroy it. Unlike other genres, fiction gives characters relatable feeling and emotion, allowing readers to visualize the story on a deeper level. In Kindred, by Octavia Butler, the close to death experiences of Rufus Weylin transports a 20th century African American woman named Dana to the antebellum South to experience exactly what it’s like to be a slave.…...

Kindred, by Octavia Butler, explores slavery through a time-traveling experience. The main character, Dana, is thrown into the antebellum south during the height of slavery. Dana is a modern-day African American woman living in Los Angeles. While celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her husband, Kevin, Dana is abruptly forced to time travel from the year 1976 to a Maryland plantation from 1815. After repeated time travel, it becomes evident that Dana’s time travels are related to her ancestor, Rufus Weylin,…...

Throughout the history of humankind, there have always been people in power and people oppressed by those in power. Race and gender are often the lines oppression is based upon; however, there have always been individuals who have fought against this harsh reality. In Kindred, by Octavia Butler, the author uses the science fiction genre to allow Dana to break the barrier of time in order to learn about the oppression of black women in society; Butler expresses that the…...

Often, man resorts to story-telling as a way of reconciling with a formidable incident in the past. By re-telling the story to another party, he comes to accept that this is a reality to be faced. He realizes that acceptance, rather than denial, is the best way of going about this trouble. Aside from the rehabilitating ability of story-telling with its contributory effect in dealing with a painful memory, others simply do this as a way of remembering. Concretizing the…...

There are various connections that can be made between the characters within the novel “Kindred” written by Octavia Butler. The majority of these connections relate to four of the course themes we’ve visited in past few weeks: double consciousness, collective trauma, diaspora, and power relationships. The protagonist, Dana Franklin, traveled between the past and present and in her travels she met a variety of different people, including the enslaved African Americans and their White owners of the 19th century, as…...