In the first part of Kindered, the prologue introduces the character Kevin and his situation with Dana. Dana has an amputated arm and neither Kevin nor Dana remembers how the arm was amputated. The author begins the story en media res giving the readers context about how the story ends. In the first chapter, The river, Dana experiences her first time travel to the south. I think that in this chapter the author wrote in discrete details of where Dana traveled to and when she traveled to. Focusing on how Dana saved the boy from drowning, the author gave details on the physical appearances of the southern mom and son which hints to the readers that Dana traveled to the south during a time of slavery. I thought that this was especially obvious with the way the southern mom dressed and the description of the gun pointed at Dana. How Dana was treated by the little boy Rufus and his mom suggests that Dana is a woman of color and is experiencing racial discrimination. In the discussion, we talked about the parallelism in the prologue and the first chapter “the river” where the characters had a similar series of events.