After reading Octavia Butlers Kindred, I started to get a new idea of historical and science fiction in literature. I first read the novel when in 2004, I was only in grade school. It was another novel that my father gave me to read because of its importance to soceity and the knowledge it will bring along with it. As I began to read the novel I remember being confused and not fully understanding the plot or being able to keep up with the characters, mostly becuase I was not very interested in it. When I finished the novel, it was a bit of a mile stone, not becuase I had finished a novel but because I had finished a novel my father gave me. Which was always something to be proud of in my father’s eyes. My father used to ask me to explain to him the novel and the details; including the characters, their backgrounds, their current role in the novel and how they weeved into the plot. When starting to explain to my father I found this quite difficult. I knew all of the answers but becuase it had an element of unrealness, I froze. I finally tried my hardest to explain to my father the exact answered to his pressing questions. I had never thought of the novel after. That was until we read Kindred for In Search of Lost Time.

When I realized that the program would be reading Kindred I had mixed feelings, becuase I had not take a liking to the novel before I had not really remembered that much about it, only the main plot and themes. When rereading the novel I told myself to forget everything I remembered, or thought I remembered about the novel. I began reading the novel as if I had read it for the first time. I finally found something in the text. I found a story that I could follow and charcters that cought my attention. I finished the novel within two days and soaked up everything it had to offer. I understood why Rufus was an important character and why Kevin understood why. Age. Age allowed me to devlop an idea and this idea helped me identify the different characters and their stuggles. I now love the novel and have reread it about three times now. Kindred was a novel that was hard to read, not becuase it was long or had difficult diction, but becuase it made you face the reality if what was. Of what society was like and how not everyone was treated equally.