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A 5 page paper which examines how and why the character in “Kindred” by Octavia Butler seems to adjust to slavery so well. No additional sources cited.
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works that present the reader with the pains and struggles of people who endured slavery and came to possess a slave mentality. Interestingly enough it seems that many of these
works are seen through the eyes of female slaves or female members of families. In Octavia Butlers story "Kindred" this is perhaps no exception for the primary character is a
woman. The following paper examines this story and discusses how and why Dana is able to adapt to the slave mentality so well considering she is a modern 20th century
African American woman. Kindred This story involves Dana, a modern 20th century African American woman. She is having her birthday celebration in the year 1976 with her husband,
a white man. With such a simple basis we can envision that she is surely a modern woman and is quite far removed from any slave mentality. She is a
modern woman in a world where slavery and issues of slavery are discussed in history books. She is likely a woman who does not even have many relatives alive who
would recall stories about slavery. Dana is somehow transported to the early 19th century throughout the book. In her transportations she finds many dangers as she must save this
person or another, manipulate this situation or another, all in an attempt to ensure her birth. Through all of these mysterious time traveling experiences she is more often than not
in great danger and is obviously a slave. She is nearly raped at least two times and is constantly having her life threatened. All the while she must involve herself
with these people, both slaves and masters, in a way that ensures she is ultimately born in the middle of the 20th century. We see how Dana is quite
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