In her article "Kindred" Pamela Bedore points out the many events which occurred in the novel Kindred by Octavia E. Butler. Pamela Bedore summarizes Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred and emphasizes on the many events which were essential or significant to the novel. Bedore goes on to discuss how exactly the novel began, by referring to Dana’s primary time traveling experience into the past. This is significant because of the fact that this novel has to do with an African American woman from the future going back to the atrocious and gruesome years of slavery in the 1800s. Bedore concentrates mainly on all of Dana’s voyages and is descriptive with sufficient detail. Not only does she focus on Dana’s voyages, but she also gives her insight and adds on to the main themes in the story. In Pamela Bedore’s critical evaluation segment of her article, she discusses Octavia E. Butler’s life accomplishments. These life accomplishments include awards such as the Nebula and Hugo in which Octavia E. Butler was nominated for and won.
Works Cited Bedore, Pamela. "Kindred". 4th ed. Masterplots: magillOnLiterature Plus, 2010. 1-3. Print.
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Characters Description edit
Dana- Dana is the main character of the story. She is dragged to travel to the past because of her ancestor Rufus. The location in which she is forced to time travel is a slave plantation in the antebellum south,located in Maryland. Her experiences in the antebellum are very rough due to the color of her skin. Because of the color of her skin, she was treated as inferior. She is whipped and beaten, which also plays a key role to her demoralization. She encounters many hardships and tribulations which consists of becoming both a house slave and a field slave as well. Many of the troubling times which she encounters in the antebellum south correlates to many of the main themes in Kindred.
Sarah- She is one of the cooks in the Weylin household. Sarah actually has a good relationship with Rufus. They share a mother and son bond, although Sarah is frightened by the fact that at any given moment Rufus could sell her children. This enables her to follow all of Rufus's order without murmuring.
Margaret- Margaret is the plantation owner's wife. Unlike Tom the plantation owner, she is very loving to her son Rufus. She goes away for a very long period of time when her infant twins die. When she returns she is a lot nicer to all the slaves in which she formerly abused, due to her opium addiction.