novel, Kindred.

A close analysis of Butler’s expressions in the novel, Kindred shows an emphasis of the impact of slavery to the slaves. When one is enslaved, he or she is not left wholly. In other words, slavery leads to the loss of some part of somebody. The literal loss of the arm that Dana experiences points to the effect that slavery had on the people who were enslaved. The author, Butler, is trying to show that slavery did not leave people as whole beings. Part of them has been lost through enslavement. In this regard, Butler uses character Dana to point to this effect. Similarly, in the novel, Dana has been exposed to slavery throughout. In the reality world of slavery, the slaves were left fragmented by the torture of the slave masters. For Butler to achieve her goal in regard to the theme of slavery, she had to leave Dana with a physical defect.

Read Kindred by Octavia Butler and, Option1 Power struggles develop between a variety of characters in the novel Choose two characters and describe how their struggle evolves over the course of the novel and why it is significant to the meaning of the novel as a whole.
Option 2: in the United state, you often hear people say things like, “Home is where the heart is” or “There’s no place like home” or even “You can’t go home again.” How does Butler explore the paradoxical meaning of feeling at “home o returning “home” in Kindred?
Option 3: The word “kindred” means one’s family or relations (e.g. next of kin), or to be similar in kind (e.g. “kindred spirits”). How does Butler interpret the term through the stories she tells in the novel?