Kindred p. 9-160

While reading this I was finding myself very into the story line and actually feeling bad for the slaves within the story. I think that the things that are happening to the slaves and to Dana in the book are unbelievable. I think that Butler does a great job in terms of grabbing the reader and showing them the terrible side of slavery but does so by tying in science fiction. Butler also does a great job tying in slave narratives and does so in a way that grabs the readers attention. A few examples of this is the fact that she ties in reading and the fact that most slave owners did not want the slaves to have any education. The slave owners kept these slaves in the dark so to speak it was easier to keep them under raps. Butler and Frederick Douglas both show the fact that slave that have an education were harder to keep down and were dangerous to the slave owners. Another thing that Butler touches on is the fact that ignorance of the slaves is a big deal. Both Butler and Douglas reference the fact that they were left in the dark in a lot of things. For example, Douglas didn't even know his own birthday, and he said that the fact he didn't know his birthday made him feel less like a human being. Butler makes reference to ignorance just by the fact that she doesn't know what is happening to her and she doesn't know the time very well.