Analysis Of Kindred By Octavia E. Butler

Did you know that 20% of the American population during the Antebellum Period were African Americans? In Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, the author deeply describes how the discrimination of Africans living in America leads up to conflict in the novel. Relating to reality, slavery has been one of the biggest conflict in the past for many years and still occurs today. Kindred will show the people today how we look back in time to see what we have done. The historical time period in the 1800s developed the theme and the character of the time period, but mostly the conflict is deeply expressed. To be realistic, the conflict is that the whites considered the blacks to be superior to them, and considered blacks to be lazy even though they are the ones working in the fields. In the novel Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, the author uses historically accurate facts with fictionalized details pertaining to the 1800s to

Slavery has been a worldwide thing that had become more and more popular for people to use against african american people. In the novel it states, “I never realized how easily people could be trained to accept slavery”(Butler 101). This represents Dana’s feelings towards how people in the 1800s can adapt to the education that was being taught and how black people should be treated. This quote uses diction in the sense as it uses “trained.” This means that people back then could easily accept what other people were doing, in this case making the african americans do the work. In the online source it states, “Because they lived in such close proximity.” This symbolizes how whites took the advantage of the blacks since they live in a close proximity to them. This quote also has imagery because of the time period, many people were tightly packed together due to the high population. This is how slavery was introduced through the