Kindred Themes (Chapter+Points)

Question 1

Freedom and Privilege

Answer 1

1. Gender based
- The Fire (Rufus talking to Dana; looked like a man)

2. Race based
- The Fire (calling names to the blacks, treatment of Dana’s question; patrollers)
- The Fall (talking like a white; being able to observe because Kevin is white)

3. Time-based
- The Fire (seeing whippings on television vs real life)
- The Fall (irony of her modern workplace name; time based cushioning)

Question 2

Choice and Power

Answer 2

The Fire and The Fall
- Lack of power for the blacks to do anything
- Treating the blacks as lower class
- The absolute power of the whites to do anything they want even to the blacks, whipping
- Taking away the choice of the blacks, Sarah and Dana

Question 3

Function of prologue

Answer 3

Build tension/mystery
- Graphic image
- Creates questions

Question 4

Building tension in Kindred

Answer 4

1. Prologue
- Graphic imagery
- Creating questions

2. The Fire
- Graphic details of first horror Dana sees in the past
- Comparison to usual life (TV) brings out the scene’s horror

3. The Fall
- Foreshadowing from witnessing a slave’s whipping
- Uncertainty right before her own whipping
- Loss of sensation due to intensity
- Uncertainty of Kevin reaching on time