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How Does Octavia Butler Use Time Traveling In Kindred

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The definition of “home” is different for many people. Some people have no place to call home. A home is a place of stability in your life. Dana the character in the novel “Kindred” by Octavia Butler gets to know two homes of hers in which later she would become more custom to. While one was stable and settle other one was filled with physical abuse, race differences, and hardcore trouble. Though out time Dana tries to find home experiencing time traveling, loneliness, and adapting to environments. Time traveling can be too dangerous to use. When you think about time traveling, you think of traveling in a time machine but no this a different kind of traveling. In the novel “Kindred” Dana is experiencing time traveling by going …show more content…

Wandering just looking around and looking and seeing around her surrounds. She is transported to the past and then back to the present. She only goes in the past when Rufus life in danger which is the little boy that she been helping since the dizziness came about. She is sent back to the past when the life of Rufus is in danger, and then back to her ordinary life which is in danger. “I don’t have a name for the thing that happened to me, but I don’t feel safe anymore “(Butler 17). She then comes back to her home in California from time traveling and she feels very unsafe about this for the first time in her …show more content…

Adapting to new homes she feels like a survivor. “I felt as though I were losing my place here in my own time” (Butler 125).Dana is describing how difficult it is to accept modern comforts as real. For the last time Dana is transport back in the present and then something bad happens and she return home for good . Dana and Kevin reunited permantly in the present. Something so wonderful about them is that they will always know the remains knowledge of their personal meaning of their past lives. That is what makes this so wonderful and remarking about the book. Now all you can say is that she finds her home though loneliness, traveling and adapting to various

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