One was to say that there was no hardship for the

one was to say that there was no hardship for the Native American people who were pushed out
of their homelands towards the western part of America despite the pleas and petitions that are
spoken of in Albert Yava’s We Want To Tell You Something (Yava; Cultural Conversations).
And if that was the case, how could slavery possibly exist for the black characters in the story?
This is not to say that Kindred has to thrive off of the oppression of racism. It does however state
that, the story does not have much of a chance in surviving with out it. “Even science fiction
which does not explicitly delve into the racial issues may still respond to them ( Thomas; Leonard
254).”
Kindred itself succeeds as a critical genre because of its power to educate and inform through

doing more than just shooting out facts of slavery, patriarchal power, racial oppression and resistance in
the early 19
th
century to the reading audience. It incorporates all of the factual evidence and mixes it
together with the help of fictional story telling and science fiction to help give the reader much more
than just one-sided knowledge . It helps to educate the reader and show them through experiencing
through first person’s narrative just what it was like to be there with the main characters and all of the
supporting characters. Through educating and informing the reading audience it succeeds to give the
reader an unbiased account of how the people of the world before them lived and dealt with the issues
of their time.
Tonia, this is a good start. but you need to do more than just summarize the book. Right now
that’s about all you do. And you only tack on all the other sources you use as an afterthought to
your summarizing. analyze everything you discuss and relate it to the other texts you cite. keep
it up. sam

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