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Prologue, The River, and The Fire
So far kindred is one novel with non-stop suspenseful breathe taking twist and turns. From the very begging chapter which is the “prologue” up until where I stopped reading which was at “The Fire”, Octavia Butler introduces what seem to be three main characters. These characters are Dana who is the narrator, Kevin which is Dana’s husband, and Rufus who Dana Keeps find herself saving his life. At this point I can for sure say Dana is African American and Rufus is white by the way he speaks to Dana. One of the main questions which keeps crossing my mind as I read is how does Dana teleport the way she does to rescue Rufus. First while in the middle of a conversation which her husband Kevin she disappears for seconds and reapers after she is filled with fear of dying when Rufus’ father holds a rifle to her. This act made her husband nervous and he began asking questions in disbelief. Soon enough she disappeared again finding herself at the boys side only thing he was now older and this was also very mind boggling if it hadn’t even been a week since the last time she vanished to save his life. This time when she saved Rufus she learned more about him and his family, the information she received made her nervous and she now knew she could not let his father catch her because he is a slave owner and she was on a plantation far from home. When she tries to escape she saw where the slaves are and wants to help them until she was caught by a patrol man who beat and raped her after she defended herself she passes out and wakes up back at home where Kevin was waiting with a kit she can take with her when it happened again. Telissa18 (talk) 16:41, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Butler's Biography Assignment
The Wikipedia page on Octavia Butler started off bad. So they introduce her in a very weird way they describe her as an American and went right into her achievements. And stated “she was the best in the field” someone who hadn’t known anything about Octavia really wouldn’t know what that meant at all. This article speaks about the life of Octavia Butler and her accomplishments but would have been better if it went more into depth with reasoning. Another change which can be made is all of the headings under the career section. Instead of all the heading this info could have been incorporated in the section which spoke about her and her achievements. I also feel there should have been more about her education rather than what schools she attended and when, maybe it could have even been separated from the early life.In the interview section I think more could have been spoken of not just two questions. Maybe they could have had more information of how she achieved things and what inspired her to be a writer. Another error I found is that not all of the links to the references work. This may be a problem to someone who is trying to find additional sources for a paper they are writing.

Octavia Butler revision
we decided to delete a link which took us to a general page, and we added a link which leads the reader directly to the biography of Octavia Butler.