Kindred

Reading Octaiva Butlers novel, Kindred gives you deep insight to the horrible life involved with slavery. Dana, one of the main characters in the novel, repeatedly gets taken out of her life and put into a life and time that is much earlier. Each time she is taken out of her life, she has to fight to stay out of trouble, or to stay alive. She is an Africian American woman and is also married to a white man, something not accepted back that time. Her husband also gets taken back with her once, and we get to see the experiences he had in this time period, which were much different form Dana. I think that each of Danas experiences in this other time period were ways to inform her of her ancestors history. When reading the novel, the author seems to try to make you feel like you are experiencing it. First hand experience is the best way to learn, but not usually possible, but Kindred trys to make it as first hand as possible.