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Octavia Butler's Kindred/The Parallelism of Alice

Octavia Butler’s, Kindred, tells a story of how a modern day black woman, Dana, is transported from California to the antebellum South to protect a man that would become her ancestor. Her survival essentially relies on her ability to keep him alive. She is summoned to a plantation in Maryland that her ancestor, Rufus Weylin, lives on. Every time Rufus faces danger Dana would be called upon to protect him, so that he can father the child that will become her ancestor. Each time Dana goes back to the past, she is confronted by the brutal reality of the slave trade in America. Throughout her journey, she discovers the true meaning of freedom when she is able to compare her own life to those who are in bondage on his father’s, Tom Weylin, plantation. The experience that Dana has in the antebellum south, tells a story of the slave trade in a fresh and innovative way. All the characters in the book have a pivotal role in the development of Dana, one in particular being Alice. Ali...

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