Reflection

Blog # 10

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Really this is my favorite blog about the slavery.These representations I wanted to put in my anterior blogs, because  we have many materials and all of them very significances about the novel that Octavia Butler, in her narrative recreation of slavery, has shown the life during the slavery in the life in general, in the plantations and dedicated her novel to teach us about African American slavery.

We  were witness of the abuse, the power and traditional gender roles, mysterious and how the African American Women suffered in that time being slave.

The blog that I'm not to proud, but that impressed me was when Dana being good educated black, strong woman was obligated to go and see the life in the plantations and slavery, how the kids were taking out from their mother and sell them and send to other place, where they had another master and exposed to the abuses, cruelty, ignorance, limitations and have to server to white man only because he was white and other was his slave, or because he was a "nigger"that they usually call them. Also another act of repudiation was when the slaves where whipped,insulted, slapped in special the women were treated as animals.

All of them  accepted the situation because they didn't have another choice, they didn't receive any education. The slaves were victim of that kind of abuses from their masters and the system itself. Verbal abuses, psychology, emotional, fiscal and the most cruel daily brutal act,  was taking the kids from the their mothers and send them to another plantations.

I consider that we have learned many things reading this fiction novel. The way how we were encouraged by you,  to read and enjoy each act, in natural way that you did. Also to think about how many slaves are now in our society, that they are treated with crudely  and terror. Maybe we are slave, but in different ways, it is another time,  and other circumstances, but we have systems that we are absorbed us and some people are abused by their "masters".

I learned also from my classmate that they are very smart and all of them did a excellent job, each other understand the concept of the novel and the massages that Octavia Butler wanted to transmit through the story.and how she developed and put the right characters to play the life as salve.
The slaver systems have been managements and controlled by white people who, through the abuse or tyranny,oppression have specially black people to work for them, for a few benefits or in very difficult way of live,also the relations interracial es that we can notice in this novel. Kindred was a great opportunity that Octavia Butler showed us all the contrasts of life in the plantations and the differences of cultures, the ignorance of all slaves.

The abuse, degradation, humiliation,they were to whipping for so little or without reason,all of the salves were expose a all kind of abuses.  The women had to give their kids to the master and be sold.  All of this things made the Kindred a spectacular novel in 1979 when was its first publication.