Kevin Character analysis
Kevin character analysis In Kindred Kevin is Dana's spouse and is a middle aged white writer. Kevin, like Dana gets sent to the past to experience the tragedies of slavery. To the reader on the surface, Kevin could come across as both insignificant to the development of the story, and somewhat useless and ignorant, however with further investigation there are a lot of layers to Kevin's character that are hard too unpack upon first glance. Butler does a great job using Kevin quietly as a way to make the reader to stare at the harsh realities of slavery and racial inequality, and ultimately Butler uses Kevin as a student learning through the 1619 project. Towards the end of Dana's second visit to the 19th century she finds herself trying to fight off a patroller who thinks that she is Alice's mom. After shaking the patroller off, she finds herself mistaking Kevin as the Patroller. This moment is where Butler begins to flirt with the idea of Kevin goi...