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This week we read Octavia E. Butler’s novel, Kindred. To summarize the parts of the book that we read, The Prologue and The River. First, in the Prologue, Dana, the main character, lost an arm and was at the hospital with medium consciousness and impaired speech and mobility. When she was finally able to speak the police officers asked if she could describe how she had lost an arm and who had done it to her. The officers tried to blame Kevin, Dana’s husband. They both let the officers know that it was not Kevin’s fault and they could not tell the police the truth to what actually happened because they would have seemed crazy and would have been locked in the mental hospital again. To me, this part seemed kind of awkward but interesting. I couldn’t …show more content…
Joy explained genetic memory. Lastly, to move on to what we did in class on Tuesday. Tuesday we watched a few videos of plantations and concentration camps. The videos were just tours of the plantations and concentration camps however, when close attenion was paid, we noticed noticed the difference between America and Germany. In Germany the government places such strict protection and sacrity on the concentration camps because it’s a landmark for the Jews and for the Germans to recognized the horrible thing that they did to the Jews and keeping the camp so sacred is part of Germany’s act to let the Jews know that nothing like that will ever happen again. As far as America, the plantaions are used used as a a tourist attraction to show off the furniture and many other antic materials. America does not try to recongize it’s fault, insteads try to hide it and use many things to distract us from the truth just like in present times. Many things are going on over our heads but America continues to add things to distract us from what is really going …show more content…
I applaud the white owner of that plantation because he is opening a whole new field that helps Americans learn the truth about what happened and how things happened during slavery. I’m so grateful for this class because it helped me learn more about myself, my ancestors, and what’s been hidden in the world and remains to be

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