Octavia butler is a major sci-fi writer and she is known for her writing in Kindred. In an interview about her, it was mentioned that she experienced racial discrimination throughout her writing career where being female and black gave her a disadvantage to her dream as a writer. I think this sparked her interest in writing about slavery during the 1800s. The idea of time travel allowed her to compare cultures between times which created a paradoxical effect. Octavia Butler uses a lot of imagery in her writing, this gives the audience a more realistic sense of slavery. I think that Butler’s purpose in writing Kindred is to educate readers about slavery through literature, describing in further depth than what readers generally learn about in class. This is also a way to bring awareness to the topic of racial discrimination and the origin of how it started. By doing so, it gives the readers more historical context of racism and encourages people to make a change in the modern world.