Octavia Butler's Portrayal Of Rufus And Dana

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Butler's Portrayal of Rufus and Dana: A Reflection of Their Times The time period in which you grow up has a significant impact on how you think and act as a person. Octavia Butler's novel Kindred tells the story of Dana, a young woman in the 70s who unwillingly travels back in time to the 1800s antebellum south to save her family lineage. Here she continues to save Rufus, her great grandfather, and risk her life in the process. Butler uses characterization to show that Rufus and Dana are people of their time. In many ways, the author demonstrates that Dana is a person of modern life. In the text, it states, “Your mother always calls black people ni***rs, Rufe? Whichever it was, he wasn’t going to go on saying it to me. I’m a black woman, Rufe.
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