A Metaphorical View into Kindred In Kindred by Octavia Butler Dana is subject to many different wounds all over her body the more involved Dana becomes in the story the more damaging the wounds are to her everyday function These wounds their severity and their position represent certain emotional and mental scars in Dana made by her travels into the 1800s The most severe of these wounds and the driver of the book since it is the opening chapter and we are awaiting for this scene throughout the
Octavia Butlers Kindred tells a story of how a modern day black woman Dana is transported from California to the antebellum South to protect a man that would become her ancestor Her survival essentially relies on her ability to keep him alive She is summoned to a plantation in Maryland that her ancestor Rufus Weylin lives on Every time Rufus faces danger Dana would be called upon to protect him so that he can father the child that will become her ancestor Each time Dana goes back to the past sh