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Examples Of Flashbacks In Kindred
In Kindred, Dana begins to go through weird little phases, almost like flashbacks of the past that she’s living for the first time. Her husband, Kevin, doesn’t necessarily believe her about her flashbacks, even though she physically moves and disappears when she’s going through them, but he soon goes encounters them with her. I believe that Butler felt the need to have Kevin stay in the past because Kevin didn’t understand Dana and why she did the things she did. Kevin knew about slavery and how blacks were treated, but he didn’t experience being a slave so he didn’t fully understand how hard and painful it was. Dana knew exactly how slavery was because she’s been experiencing the flashbacks or whatever they are longer than Kevin has, so Butler
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