Blog Post 7 - Kindred

I think that Butler used the prologue effect because it helps to build a better story and suspense in the book and in each chapter. When the end of the chapter has a cliff hanger ending it makes it difficult to stop reading one chapter without continuing the next one right away. You almost are egged on to keep reading the book instead of putting it down just so you can find out what happens next.

Each chapter is named after a certain event that draws her to the past to save Rufus from himself. Each section in the chapter relates to that certain point or event that happens in that part of the chapter that brings her there. Then after what happens she if left to deal with what happens after wards of that event and the consequence of staying a little bit too long.  

I haven’t really read any other books that have time travel as a forum of transportation in it. I have seen plenty of TV show and movie to make a good guess at it. From the other time travel transportation that I have seen is that a lot of time they have a machine that they use to get from the past to the present or the future to now. The machine has a dial that pin points the traveler to the time that they want to go. In kindred Dana has no control of when she is called to the past but does have control of when she able to go back. Even though time passes different from the past to the present I have seen passes at the same rate as the present or time doesn't advance at all. Then again there is no written rule for time travel so any idea or theory could be possible. 

In Kindred there is really no science in the forum in the time travel aspect. There is a way to explain why she travels to the past. She is called when she is needed and she is able to go back home when she is danger of dying.