What Makes Kindred So Powerful?
As soon as I started reading Kindred it had a quick impact on me: the way I view the era of slavery in the United States, and also the way that I understood the story. It made me think a lot more about how people during the time thought about slavery. This is a large contrast from what I have learned in school because in school I learned mostly about what happened and the course of events due to what people thought of slavery generally. What is left out is feelings people experience from day to day due to the oppressive system; feelings are rarely discussed and never in much detail. Kindred emphasizes social perception and communication on an individual level which helped me understand more about what really happened during those times. I think the most important feature of the novel that helps the reader connect to the story and understand how people feel is that it connects to present day. It starts with the prologue; at the beginning, you read about...