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, Dana's story is told in three distinct points of time: the present, the
past/present, and the past. In the present, Dana lives with her husband, Kevin, in a new house
where they're just beginning to settle down. In the past/present, Dana is a slave on a
plantation where her ancestors are living. In the past, Dana and Kevin's relationship is laid
out through flashbacks that introduce the reader to their life together.
By
telling the story this way, Butler is able to pull the reader into each storyline as if it's
happening right that moment. The reader can understand Dana's motivations and Kevin's
frustrations through their own perspectives on the story.
In a more grounded
way, the fact that Dana is tasked with bringing together her great-great-great-grandparents
means that not just her future, but her very existence is in question. If she is unsuccessful,
she may never come to exist in the first place. This is a classic trope in time travel
literature that ups...
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