it is so important for Dana to help Alice be liberated and free from being forced to do anything she doesn’t want to do‚ Dana knows that if she were to stop Rufus and Alice from having a baby‚ Dana would most likely not exist. I do believe that Octavia Butler wants us to critique what Dana did and think about why she did it‚ but she does not want us to criticize her. I believe that she wants us to critique Dana so we can realize what a tough situation she is in. Although there is never an excuse for
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Book Review The 1979 novel‚Kindred‚ written by Octavia Butler‚ is a piece of literature that captivates a reader‚ by expressing issues related to Black Americans that are not often discussed. The novel evokes emotions of love‚ horror‚ and power. Kindred allows a reader to deep into the mindset and perspective of characters‚ to understand the struggle of slavery during the slave era. Kindred is about a young‚ free‚ Black-American woman named Dana‚ who is the main character and narrator of
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cultural‚ to psychological‚ to physical‚ to technological and to even microscopic. Even more fascinating is the fact that this mirrors life outside of literature. A work of literature that displays manipulation in multiple facets is Dawn by Octavia Butler (2). Dawn is the story of Lilith‚
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Shadi Essa 11/26/12 Benjamin Banneker Period 8 DREAMS The real meaning of a dream is hope‚ an inspiration; a purpose. Every human being has a dream or goal; the dreams change greatly from person to person‚ some being minor while
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Octavia Butler’s "Kindred" Throughout Butler Octavia’s novel Kindred‚ there are several examples of female characters who tend to challenge women’s traditional roles. Dana is the main character who should be considered a dynamo considering how independent she is during the point of time she travels to (the 1800s). Women have been seen for a long time as not being independent because they depend on their husbands to support them while they stay at home taking care of the children‚ I do not
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minded of the one’s around them. It is not acceptable to be closed minded towards differences. Octavia Butler most definitely uses Rufus Weylin in the novel‚ Kindred to show how closed minded a child can become through his whole life. Everything Rufus picked up was from mainly his father‚ Mr. Weylin. If only Rufus did not pick up all the bad influences from society and his father. In Kindred‚ Octavia Butler uses Rufus Weylin’s childhood and adulthood to portray that prejudice is learned from society
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and make me think a lot on the subject matter such as feminism‚ slavery and gender and race equality. However‚ after reading this novel‚ I do not consider it as a science fiction. Octavia Butler’s definition of the book as a “grim fantasy” seems more appropriate. Nevertheless‚ as a successful science fiction author‚ Butler incorporated a very common and important science fiction element into the novel--- time travelling. Time travelling is crucial to the plot development and provides the context for
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books are so interesting and loved by all because they show us what a future could be if we take the wrong path. Dystopia means literally “bad place.” These are usually imaginary worlds where “present tendencies are carried out to their intensely unpleasant culminations” (Harmon 159-160). It is usually set in the future and a place where few want to live. The authors that write dystopias usually want to warn readers about the possible dangers a future society could present if we stay on our current
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Dystopia Dystopia is often a society set in the future that has degraded into a repressive and controlled state‚ often under the control of some form of government but not always. A dystopian society can also be a planned structured society in which the conditions of life are deliberately made miserable. Some examples of these can be characterized by poverty‚ oppression‚ violence‚ disease‚ scarcity‚ and/or pollution for the benefit of a select minority or some unnatural societal goal. I am going
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In almost anyone’s eyes‚ family comes first. You would do absolutely anything for them‚ and in the novel Kindred by Octavia Butler there is no exception. Although the novel concentrates on the previous existence of slavery and the harsh realities of racism‚ another theme that is not exactly centralized is how far an individual will go in order to protect their loved ones. In this particular novel‚ there are two major examples on how far a person will go for their family. On one end‚ you have the
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