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''Kindred'' is prolific sci-fi writer [[Creator/OctaviaButler Octavia E. Butler]]'s best selling novel.
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First published in 1979, it is still widely popular, as well as being a [[UsefulNotes/SchoolStudyMedia common choice]] for high school and college courses.
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First published in 1979, it is still widely popular, as well as being a [[UsefulNotes/SchoolStudyMedia [[MediaNotes/SchoolStudyMedia common choice]] for high school and college courses.
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* TheChainOfHarm: We see this taken to tragic effect with Rufus. His father was an abusive, racist monster who taught his son cruelty and often beat him for minor infractions. Rufus then goes on to become a monster himself, upholding the system of violence and cruelty, [[spoiler: going as far as to rape Alice and eventually attempt to rape Dana. He thankfully fails during the second attempt.]]
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* DeathSeeker: It's implied that Rufus knows what kind of monster he's become, and he just wants his pain to end. [[spoiler: Dana grants him his wish and even lampshades this possibility while reflecting back.]]
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* DeathSeeker: It's implied that Rufus knows what kind of is disgusted with the monster he's become, and he just wants his pain to end.end, preferably through death. [[spoiler: Dana grants him his wish and even lampshades this possibility while reflecting back.]]
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Margaret Weylin ends up losing twins in childbirth, which drives her to the depths of insanity. Horrible right? Except she was an unapologetic racist and slaver who callously tore apart families so she could satisfy her frivolous desires and wants.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: Rufus slowly loses what redeeming qualities he once had, and becomes yet another monster upholding the system of slavery.
* TookALevelInKindness: Downplayed with Margaret Weylin. She's still complicit in the slave trade as well as a racist who views black people as less than animals, yet she shows that she is nicer as she gets older and treats Dana with more kindness.
* TookALevelInKindness: Downplayed with Margaret Weylin. She's still complicit in the slave trade as well as a racist who views black people as less than animals, yet she shows that she is nicer as she gets older and treats Dana with more kindness.
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* DeathSeeker: It's implied that Rufus knows what kind of monster he's become, and he just wants his pain to end. [[spoiler: Dana even lampshades this even after she's killed him.]]
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* DeathSeeker: It's implied that Rufus knows what kind of monster he's become, and he just wants his pain to end. [[spoiler: Dana grants him his wish and even lampshades this even after she's killed him.possibility while reflecting back.]]
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* DeathSeeker: It's implied that Rufus knows what kind of monster he's become, and he just wants his pain to end. [[spoiler: Dana even lampshades this even after she's killed him.]]
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* DiedInIgnorance: [[spoiler:Alice takes her own life, believing that Rufus has sold her remaining children. It's revealed that Rufus only sent the children to stay with relatives to temporarily scare and punish Alice, and meant to reveal the truth and bring them back eventually.]]
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* NothingIsScarier: Kevin's five years in the past are off-page and only a few details are ever given, but he's severely traumatized by it. The few anecdotes he's willing to give are horrific, and it's clear that even while his privilege protected him he witnessed some truly horrific things.
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* NothingIsScarier: Kevin's five years in the past are off-page and only a few details are ever given, [[spoiler:he spent his time becoming an abolitionist]], but he's severely traumatized by it. The few anecdotes he's willing to give are horrific, and it's clear that even while his privilege protected him he witnessed some truly horrific things.
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It follows a young African-American writer, Dana, who inexplicably finds herself being shunted in time between her Los Angeles, California home in 1976 and a pre-Civil War Maryland plantation. There she meets her ancestors: a proud black freewoman and a white planter who has forced her into slavery and concubinage. As Dana's stays in the past become longer, the young woman becomes intimately entangled with the plantation community. She is forced to make hard choices to survive slavery and to try and return to her own time.
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It follows a young African-American writer, Dana, who inexplicably finds herself being shunted in time between her Los Angeles, California home in 1976 and a pre-Civil War Maryland plantation. There she meets her ancestors: a proud black freewoman and a white planter who has forced her into slavery and concubinage. As Dana's stays stay in the past become becomes longer, the young woman becomes intimately entangled with the plantation community. She is forced to make hard choices to survive slavery and to try and return to her own time.
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* SettingUpdate: The original novel's present day is set in 1976, while the 2022 series's present day is set in 2016.
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* NamedByTheAdaptation: In the book, Dana's mother isn't named. In the 2022 series, however, her name is given as Olivia.
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A [[ComicBookAdaptation graphic novel adaptation]] by Damian Duffy and John Jennings was released in 2017. A live action series adaptation was announced in March 2021 and is scheduled to premiere on Creator/{{Hulu}} on December 13, 2022.
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A [[ComicBookAdaptation graphic novel adaptation]] by Damian Duffy and John Jennings was released in 2017. A live action series adaptation was announced in March 2021 and is scheduled to premiere premiered on Creator/{{Hulu}} on December 13, 2022.
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A [[ComicBookAdaptation graphic novel adaptation]] by Damian Duffy and John Jennings was released in 2017. A live action series adaptation for Creator/{{FX|Networks}} was announced in March 2021 and is scheduled to premiere on Creator/{{Hulu}} on December 13, 2022.
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A [[ComicBookAdaptation graphic novel adaptation]] by Damian Duffy and John Jennings was released in 2017. A live action series adaptation for Creator/{{FX|Networks}} was announced in March 2021.
2021 and is scheduled to premiere on Creator/{{Hulu}} on December 13, 2022.
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* ButNotTooBlack: Only Dana's aunt favors [[BlackGalOnWhiteGuyDrama Dana's and Kevin's marriage]], as it would mean that her niece's children would have lighter skin.
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* ButNotTooBlack: Only Dana's aunt favors [[BlackGalOnWhiteGuyDrama Dana's and Kevin's marriage]], as it would mean that her niece's children would have lighter skin. Dana bitterly notes the hypocrisy of her claiming to dislike white people while preferring lighter-skinned black people.
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* HappinessInSlavery: Defied. The novel makes very clear that there is no way to be a slave and be happy. The only reason any slave seems happy with their lot is that their owner is forcing them to behave that way under threat of violence.
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* TheSlowPath: Many of the characters in the past note how they grow older while Dana is not eternally youthful, not understanding how less time passes for her in the future. [[spoiler: And poor Kevin has to wait five years for her to give him a return trip]].
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* RiddleForTheAges: Dana's AccidentalTimeTravel is the only supernatural phenomenon in the story. She never learns what causes it and gives up on trying to understand it.
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** Dana's AccidentalTimeTravel is the only supernatural phenomenon in the story. She never learns what causes it and gives up on trying to understandit.it.
** Nigel and Carrie are the only members of the main cast whose fates are left ambiguous.
** Dana's AccidentalTimeTravel is the only supernatural phenomenon in the story. She never learns what causes it and gives up on trying to understand
** Nigel and Carrie are the only members of the main cast whose fates are left ambiguous.
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* CategoryTraitor: Dana takes some heat from the other slaves because she works so closely with Rufus and his father. They get over it when [[spoiler:another slave rats out her plan to run away and reunite with Kevin; Liza then is forced to work with most of her teeth missing]].
* ChildByRape: All of Alice's children were conceived from being forcibly impregnated by Rufus, which in turn makes Dana's entire family tree a product of rape.
* ChildByRape: All of Alice's children were conceived from being forcibly impregnated by Rufus, which in turn makes Dana's entire family tree a product of rape.
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* CategoryTraitor: CantLiveWithoutYou: Dana is summoned to the past whenever Rufus is in mortal peril and no one else is around to save him. This is why Tom and Rufus aren't as abusive to her as they are to other slaves, as they know that all she has to do is simply let him die the next time he needs her.
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** Dana takes some heat from the other slaves because she works so closely with Rufus and his father. They get over it when [[spoiler:another slave rats out her plan to run away and reunite with Kevin; Liza then is forced to work with most of her teeth missing]].
** During his time TrappedInThePast, Kevin was nearly run out of town by an AngryMob who (correctly) suspected him of helping runaway slaves.
* ChildByRape: All of Alice's children were conceived from being forcibly impregnated by Rufus, which in turn makes Dana's entire family tree a product of rape. There are also a lot of slave children running around the plantation with Tom Weylin's features, not that it stops him from selling them.
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** Dana takes some heat from the other slaves because she works so closely with Rufus and his father. They get over it when [[spoiler:another slave rats out her plan to run away and reunite with Kevin; Liza then is forced to work with most of her teeth missing]].
** During his time TrappedInThePast, Kevin was nearly run out of town by an AngryMob who (correctly) suspected him of helping runaway slaves.
* ChildByRape: All of Alice's children were conceived from being forcibly impregnated by Rufus, which in turn makes Dana's entire family tree a product of rape. There are also a lot of slave children running around the plantation with Tom Weylin's features, not that it stops him from selling them.
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* DieOrFly: The only way Dana can get back to the present is to fear for her life. At one point her terror at being whipped is enough to send her back, while at another point she is whipped but can't get back because she doesn't truly think it will kill her.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Tom Weylin never breaks his word to anyone, white or black. Not because he considers slaves people or anything ludicrous like that, but because he considers promises sacred. When he learns that Rufus tried to renege on a deal with Dana, he forces him to go through with it.
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** Laws are worthless unless enforced. The free black people of the South can easily be abducted and resold by slavers because the populace won't prosecute them for it. Dana should theoretically have some protection as a slave who belongs to another man, but in practice Rufus and Tom can do practically anything to her and the fact that Rufus' life hinges on her survival is the only real card she has to play.
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* NothingIsScarier: Kevin's five years in the past are off-page and only a few details are ever given, but he's severely traumatized by it. The few anecdotes he's willing to give are horrific, and it's clear that even while his privilege protected him he witnessed some truly horrific things.
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* PrematurelyGreyHaired: Kevin was already going grey in his thirties, but it becomes really pronounced after he's trapped in the past for [[spoiler:five years]], thanks to the horrors he's seen.
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* PhysicalScarsPsychologicalScars: [[spoiler:Dana loses the arm that Rufus grabbed in his death throes, showing that she'll never be able to recover from her experiences here.]]
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* WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou: Rufus blames Alice for "making" him rape her by refusing him, and later Dana for "making" him be violent toward him for defying him. He seems to genuinely believe it too.
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* AintTooProudToBeg: To survive as a slave, you have to be willing to sacrifice your pride for your life or the lives of those around you. Dana is only allowed a measure of power because Rufus' life depends on her, and even she is reduced to pleading and bargaining more than once for her fellow slaves.
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* BaitTheDog: Rufus sometimes seems sympathetic, guilty, or even loving to the slaves he cares about, but when the chips are down and he feels he's losing control, his violence, possessiveness, and racism always wins out. It causes no small amount of trouble for Dana and Alice, who struggle with hating him because of these softer moments.
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* BaitTheDog: Rufus sometimes seems sympathetic, guilty, or even loving to the slaves he cares about, but when the chips are down and he feels he's losing control, his violence, possessiveness, and racism always wins out. It causes no small amount of trouble for Dana and Alice, who struggle with hating him because of these softer moments.Alice.
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* FieryCoverup: [[spoiler:It's revealed in the epilogue that after Dana killed Rufus, Nigel set the mansion aflame to cover it up. As far as Dana can tell, he succeeded, but he and Carrie aren't on the list of slaves that were sold afterwards and their children are, leaving it unclear what happened to him.]]
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* ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler: After Alice's suicide]], Rufus sees Dana as a replacement for Alice. [[spoiler:She stabs him fatally, in response]].
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* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: Alice names her children Aaron, Miriam, Joseph, and Hagar, since they were all slaves that were eventually freed. Dana wryly notes that it's a good thing Rufus doesn't pay any attention to the Bible.
* ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler: After Alice's suicide]], Rufus sees Dana as a replacement for Alice. [[spoiler:She stabs himfatally, fatally in response]].
* ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler: After Alice's suicide]], Rufus sees Dana as a replacement for Alice. [[spoiler:She stabs him
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* ViolenceIsDisturbing: The first time Dana sees someone get whipped, she's terrified and notes that no movie or tv show reproduction holds a candle to real violence. When she's whipped herself, she's so terrified that she thinks she's dying.
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* ViolenceIsDisturbing: The first time Dana sees someone get whipped, she's terrified and notes that no movie or tv show reproduction holds a candle to real violence. When she's whipped herself, she's in so terrified that much pain she thinks she's dying.
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* HarmfulHealing: The local doctor believes in bleeding and purging for everything and usually makes things worse for his patients when he doesn't kill them outright. Dana is treated like a miracle worker for her ideas like "disinfect wounds" and "stop using horse medicine on black people".
* IHaveYourWife: The Weylins make a practice out of threatening their slaves' families, even encouraging them to marry and settle down so they'll be less likely to run. Tom sold three of Sarah's children and let her keep the fourth, supposedly because she was mute but actually so Sarah would know better than to defy him.
* IHaveYourWife: The Weylins make a practice out of threatening their slaves' families, even encouraging them to marry and settle down so they'll be less likely to run. Tom sold three of Sarah's children and let her keep the fourth, supposedly because she was mute but actually so Sarah would know better than to defy him.
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* PhysicalScarsPsychologicalScars: [[spoiler:Dana loses the arm that Rufus grabbed in his death throes, showing that she'll never be able to recover from her experiences here.]]
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* SouthernBelle: Deconstructed with Margaret Weylin, in the vein of most slave narratives. Her Christian moralizing is deeply hypocritical, the slaves actually keep the household going while she just runs around and gives them orders to pretend she's in charge, she's pretty but also not intelligent, and her temper is less a cute affectation and more a source of terror for the people living under her.
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First published in 1979, it is still widely popular, as well as being a [[SchoolStudyMedia common choice]] for high school and college courses.
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* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: While Rufus is unable to officially marry a black woman in his time period, this doesn't stop him from pulling off the ultimatum in spirit.
** He buys Alice and forces her to live with and have sex with him under the threat of whipping her.
** When [[spoiler: Alice breaks down and kills herself]], he tries to force Dana to take her place.
** He buys Alice and forces her to live with and have sex with him under the threat of whipping her.
** When [[spoiler: Alice breaks down and kills herself]], he tries to force Dana to take her place.
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* BeyondRedemption: Dana initially meets Rufus as a child, and begins to think she can help change him for the better. He still ends up as a cruel, slave-owning rapist, and she agrees with Kevin that he's a lost cause.
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* TheSociopath: The adult Rufus is a manipulative slaveowner who is completely unapologetic for his actions, and feels no shame in letting Isaac get sold away so he can force Alice to live as his SexSlave. He says a couple of times that sees Alice and Dana as the same woman, implying that he sees them as interchangeable objects.
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** People's morals are made by their circumstances, and you can't always overcome this. Rufus had a tender side as a child, but life in the Antebellum South beat his empathy out of him and led him to become just another cruel slaveowner. Meanwhile, Kevin began to be slightly swayed by the arguments of the slaveowners and downplay slavery when he was stuck in the past. Fortunately, Dana put a stop to this, but it's still a chilling reminder that anyone could lose their decency in an indecent society.
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* SympatheticSlaveOwner: {{Deconstructed}} when the present-day black protagonist Dana is pulled back in time to meet Rufus, the son of a plantation owner in UsefulNotes/AntebellumAmerica, at different times in his life. As he ages, his regard for her as a person is superseded by his sense of entitlement to her as a possession (even though he has no legal claim to her), even while [[WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency he earnestly believes that his occasional kindnesses make up for him laying claim to her entire life and even make her privileged.]]
* TeleFrag: [[spoiler: How Dana loses her arm.]]
* TeleFrag: [[spoiler: How Dana loses her arm.]]
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