Kindred revised

1. The book Kindred by: Octavia Butler is a book about a woman sent back in time to save one of her distant relatives.

2. In kindred Dana the main character starts to have these panic attacks that send her unconcessis in modern times, but while she is unconcuess in her time she is sent to 1976. In this time people believe her to be a runaway slave. In which she feels that she has spent hours, days, and sometimes even weeks in 1976. As the book goes on we learn that she only is sent to 1976 when a little boy named Rufus, a son of a plantation owner is in trouble. Dana is sent here to save him from being beat from his father, and from being killed. Dana has to save this little boy and make sure nothing happens to him because she believes he is one of her distance ancestor.

3. How does the prologue set up the story? Why does Butler use such a device? What tone does the first sentence of the Prologue set for your reading of the novel? The prologue lets the reader know that something big is going to happen sometime later in the story. Butler uses this to draw the reader into the story so they will want to read on. The first sentence of the prologue makes the reader wonder what trip they went on. What happened to them?

4. When I first read the first sentence of the prologue I thought this was about a boy who may have lost his arm in a war. I was all of a sudden drawn into the book, wanting to know what happened to this person, what kind of trip they went in that they lost their arm. I feel that Butler did a very nice job of getting the readers attention and wanted them to read on to find out what happened.