Undeterred In Kindred

The novel Kindred by Octavia E. Butler,Written in 1976 in Maryland, Tells a story about an interracial couple who time travels back in time to the early 1800’s to antebellum Maryland. It Is a dystopian world told in first person by the protagonist and one of the main characters, Dana. Dana is a young black women writer who finds Struggling to survive in maryland. Dana must go back in time to save the future of her existing family tree by saving the life of Rufus, who was the father of an ancestor, on several different occasions. Despite the fact that he abuses, rapes, and enslaves her. She must keep in mind that she must think and act as a strong, free and educated black women even when placed in a time of cruel racist time. The husband of Dana is Kevin Franklin, Undeterred by the objections his family had on their marriage. He enjoys to be the one in charge and through the story he thinks that Dana might be enjoying her time with Rufus. He has little knowledge to the injustice that is surrounding him. In the time of the early eighteen-hundreds, is where dana and kevin meet Alice and Rufus. Alice is enslaved by Rufus and is
When she returns to the past Alice is found dead hanging from a rope because Rufus told her she sold their children off when in reality he sent them to his aunt's house in Baltimore. Rufus attempts to rape her and Dana stabs him several times with a knife and kills him. She returns home but her arm was damaged where Rufus’s hand was. In the novel Kindred, it is told through Dana’s point of view. Because of this it has a certain effect on the reader. Dna goes through living a normal life to suddenly time traveling back in time to where her ancestors were born and violence on Blacks was the main topic. Even though she was aware of what happened before she was born, it was different when she had to experience it