In life, there are times a person may face challenging situations. A person may never know how strong or smart they really are until they are challenged. It may be standing up to a bully, or withstanding a life threatening situation. It is truly amazing what a person can endure to survive; they will find how strong they truly are. The novel, Kindred, by Octavia Butler is a great example of this idea. In Octavia Butler’s Kindred, she uses Dana’s and other characters behaviors to suggest the theme people will take extreme measures to survive. While time traveling back to the 1800s, Dana is faced with new realities. She faces the many everyday challenges of her enslaved ancestors and more.
At the start of the novel, Dana meets a young boy named Rufus ,; who will play a major role in the novel. After she times travels back the second time, she needs Rufu’s help to get her to safety. Rufus takes her to a free woman’s house, named Alice. Alice is one of Dana’s ancestors as well. At her arrival. Dana witnesses a black man being horribly beaten by his masters. The man’s wife had been punched in the face and knocked …show more content…
Dana is terrified to return back to the south, but she knows she will have to in favor of Rufus. She eventually tells her husband what happened to her, and the two put together a survival kit for when she time travels again. Dana knows this is not the last time she will need to defend herself to survive in the south, but she also realizes being from modern times is a disadvantage to her. “I sighed. ‘So the more I think about it, the harder it is for me to believe I could survive even a few more trips to a place like that. There’s just too much that could go wrong .(51). ‘Will you stop that! Look, your ancestors survived that era—survived it with fewer advantages than you have. You’re no less than they are.’‘In a way, I am.’‘What
At the start of the novel, Dana meets a young boy named Rufus ,; who will play a major role in the novel. After she times travels back the second time, she needs Rufu’s help to get her to safety. Rufus takes her to a free woman’s house, named Alice. Alice is one of Dana’s ancestors as well. At her arrival. Dana witnesses a black man being horribly beaten by his masters. The man’s wife had been punched in the face and knocked …show more content…
Dana is terrified to return back to the south, but she knows she will have to in favor of Rufus. She eventually tells her husband what happened to her, and the two put together a survival kit for when she time travels again. Dana knows this is not the last time she will need to defend herself to survive in the south, but she also realizes being from modern times is a disadvantage to her. “I sighed. ‘So the more I think about it, the harder it is for me to believe I could survive even a few more trips to a place like that. There’s just too much that could go wrong .(51). ‘Will you stop that! Look, your ancestors survived that era—survived it with fewer advantages than you have. You’re no less than they are.’‘In a way, I am.’‘What