novel‚ by Octavia E. Butler‚ is about a young‚ black woman‚ named Dana in the 1970s‚ who time-travels to the past when slavery was prominent. At this time‚ plantations are embedded in society‚ and colored people have almost no rights. In her first experience in the past‚ she ends up saving a young boy drowning in the river. However‚ as she returns him to his mother‚ she learns the challenges that people of color face during this era. Dana realizes that she gained an uncontrollable power where she teleports
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(white man) salvation. The main character is Dana. She experiences what it feels like to be a black slave female. A twenty-six years old woman faces with the unbelievable events of the 19th century in the south of America. The 19th century was the time of slavery and racial inequality. Dana
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Dana‚ from the novel Kindred‚ experiences these so called “hallucinations” or as she would call them‚ “time travels”. There is no specific data showing what the real explanation for why these episodes occur but one possibility could be that Dana has the ability to time travel to past years meet people that had an effect on her in present day. When someone time travels‚ there body and mind goes with them and they disappear from reality. Time travel is usually by choice and the time traveler is aware
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Packing Industry Question 1: Describe Dana Company’s new strategic competitive position. The Dana Packaging Company has chosen a differentiation strategy. This is supported by the shift to producing packaging for high end products. These products require more technological sophistication and better materials for their packaging so as a result Dana is making their packaging more study‚ colorful‚ attractive‚ and better sealing. The other are that Dana has made it a point to differentiate is
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10‚ 2013 Reading Response Kindred Reading Response Kindred LT02 Summarize the Text In Olivia Butler’s novel‚ Kindred‚ an African American woman‚ Dana‚ is unexpectedly pulled back to the Slave Era where she struggles to face the inequalities that existed at that time. After moving into her new apartment with her newly wedded husband‚ Dana is unexpectedly pulled back in time to finds herself in 1800‚ Maryland where she sees Rufus drowning in a river. After rescuing the young white boy‚ she
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Octavia Butler is a novel about an African-American writer named Dana‚ who lives in Los Angeles during the 1970’s with her white husband‚ Kevin. An unknown force however‚ pulls Dana back into time‚ where she travels back in the past during the Antebellum South where she is met with the harsh period of slavery in the early United States. With her journeys back in the past‚ she is always met with the son of a plantation owner‚ Rufus‚ whom Dana will see grow into adulthood. She learns that she has been
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are several aspects in society that determines these inequalities. In the novel Kindred by Octavia Butler‚ Dana is alienated from society through race‚ class‚ and gender. Thus‚ she faced much hardships and tribulations throughout the novel. Society’s outlook of African Americans caused Dana to be abused on many different levels‚ especially when she travels to the time of slavery. When Dana is in the 1800`s she is reduced to a slave. She is called not by her name‚ but is rather referred to as a nigger
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racism are expressed through her character Dana and her time travels back into the antebellum south from 1970 California. In Octavia Butlers Kindred survival is shown by the character Dana. Throughout the novel Dana depends on her smarts and guts to survive her time travels to the past. In the novel Dana is forced to watch over the survival of her own ancestors due to their survival being critical to the survival of her own existence in the world. For Dana this responsibility creates a consistent
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A Metaphorical View into Kindred In Kindred by Octavia Butler‚ Dana is subject to many different wounds all over her body; the more involved Dana becomes in the story the more damaging the wounds are to her everyday function. These wounds‚ their severity‚ and their position represent certain emotional and mental scars in Dana made by her travels into the 1800’s.The most severe of these wounds and the bait of the novel‚ since it is the opening chapter and I am awaiting for this scene
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my friend Dana and I were playing near my brother’s pet spider. While playing Dana decided to harass the spider who was named mark. I could not have stopped her so I went along with the plan. she took a long thin piece of wood and began poking mark‚ every time we heard a foot step we would jump on the bed. Then my mother came up to the room where we were she said that she will be going to the super market and we had to feed Mark. ’Great! a chance to play with Mark’ shouted Dana. After mom
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