Octavia Butler Analysis
Writers has been some of the most influential people in society for centuries. Whether as recorders of history, media, science, or tales. Reflecting and interpreting his or her society is a constant job that they uphold. This is why the world has a vast variety of them. With their different minds, genres, styles, and themes. No single person can say writers such as William Shakespeare, and Octavia Butler are one in the same.
A writer's role is challenging and is constantly changing as time progress. Time is a constant and waits on no one. However, one author that is not bonded by time is William Shakespeare. A well renowned poet playwright, and actor who is widely regarded as the world's greatest writer; living on with us today after …show more content…
A notorious female writer of color who rose through her ranks being renowned as an science fiction writer. Her work is so out of this world that she captures her audience through her use of suspension of disbelief. Almost all of Butler’s work uses suspension of disbelief to grab the reader's attention. One of her well known works Kindred explores the idea of time travel. In Kindred we the readers experiences the harsh reality of slavery through Butler illustration and usage of characters not sugar coating anything. Butler compares and contrasts modern African Americans and Whites to African Americans and Whites in the antebellum south in the 1800s. Butler creates a fictional link to the past relating two times to one another; a time many seems not willing to forget or does not want to forget. Kindred is a fictional representation of history where the main character Dana is black and her husband Kevin a white. Butler presents a notion of two people marrying outside their races. Kevin’s sister would not have it, “she didn’t want to meet...wouldn’t...in her house or me either if I married you” as she told Kevin (Butler, 1978 page 110). This comparison shows the progress still needed as far as race; knowing how looked down upon an interracial marriage was view by both families. A unheard of though back in the 1800s. Throughout the novel Butler constantly display such relationships as the one with Dana and Rufus as blacks and whites struggle in both past and present. The relationship of the two consistently tested the racial and boundaries. Her having power over a young naive little white boy, him growing to see her as person with a name and not just some nigger. He found comfort in her and her him, at least that how it was during his childhood. Like many children the grow up and this where Butler uses transition of power and how power corrupts.
A writer's role is challenging and is constantly changing as time progress. Time is a constant and waits on no one. However, one author that is not bonded by time is William Shakespeare. A well renowned poet playwright, and actor who is widely regarded as the world's greatest writer; living on with us today after …show more content…
A notorious female writer of color who rose through her ranks being renowned as an science fiction writer. Her work is so out of this world that she captures her audience through her use of suspension of disbelief. Almost all of Butler’s work uses suspension of disbelief to grab the reader's attention. One of her well known works Kindred explores the idea of time travel. In Kindred we the readers experiences the harsh reality of slavery through Butler illustration and usage of characters not sugar coating anything. Butler compares and contrasts modern African Americans and Whites to African Americans and Whites in the antebellum south in the 1800s. Butler creates a fictional link to the past relating two times to one another; a time many seems not willing to forget or does not want to forget. Kindred is a fictional representation of history where the main character Dana is black and her husband Kevin a white. Butler presents a notion of two people marrying outside their races. Kevin’s sister would not have it, “she didn’t want to meet...wouldn’t...in her house or me either if I married you” as she told Kevin (Butler, 1978 page 110). This comparison shows the progress still needed as far as race; knowing how looked down upon an interracial marriage was view by both families. A unheard of though back in the 1800s. Throughout the novel Butler constantly display such relationships as the one with Dana and Rufus as blacks and whites struggle in both past and present. The relationship of the two consistently tested the racial and boundaries. Her having power over a young naive little white boy, him growing to see her as person with a name and not just some nigger. He found comfort in her and her him, at least that how it was during his childhood. Like many children the grow up and this where Butler uses transition of power and how power corrupts.