Power Relations in Octavias Kindred Essay

Essay 1 Essays evaluate your engagement with the themes and texts of this course. Select ONE of the posted prompts OR develop and respond to your own prompt. If you choose to respond to your own prompt, you must include the prompt above your response. Regardless of what you choose to argue, your essay must remain focused on the work under study. Your essay must incorporate textual support from at least TWO sources (support from the primary text AND one scholarly source). While you are free to include additional sources, your essay should balance analysis and support.Prompts:1) How does Octavia Butler depict race and race relations? In what ways, and to what extent, does Dana work against the sociocultural conditions of the past?2) How is Butler’s novel and the characters she develops shaped by violence? In what ways and for what purposes does violence enter the text?3) What does the novel have to say about the importance of recovering alternative versions of history? Whose history is remembered and reimagined? Whose is lost?4) What does Kindred have to say about power relations? How and why does the character of Rufus evolve throughout the text?