The first page of the prologue introduces the narrator who seemed to have lost her arms due to an unknown reason. Eventually, another character named Kevin was introduced when it was revealed that he was arrested, but later on released. Though Kevin was accused of harming the main character, I highly doubt that he had caused the accident. I am assuming the cause of the accident is something unrealistic because on page 11, the main character had mentioned if the real reason was actually revealed, Kevin would have been locked up in a mental hospital.
On the first chapter it was revealed that the main character's name is Dana. Dana started the chapter off by taking the readers back to her 26th birthday on June 9,1976. Dana did not have anything planned to celebrate her birthday, but move into a new house with her husband, Kevin. Dana all of a sudden got dizzy, and vanished. When she gained consciousness, she wakes up outdoors kneeling on the ground beneath trees. She then saw a red-haired child in the middle of the river, drowning, who she helped without any hesitations. When Dana pulls the child onto the shore, she noticed that he had already stopped breathing. The mother came, and screamed at Dana for "killing" her child, but Dana continued to give him mouth to mouth, which she managed to save, eventually. It was later revealed that the child's name is Rufus. Afterwards, Dana hears a voice of a man, and as soon as she turns around, she sees an angry man holding a rifle within close distance from her. Just when she thought she was going to be killed for saving Rufus's life, everything became blurry again, and she wakes up in her own living room.
Good luck on changing your major! The nursing program is great at Plattsburgh, as I'm sure you know. I know what you mean about the different pace here - it was a culture shock for me too after I moved here from Boston. That's really interesting that the changes you have made in your personal health have inspired your career choices. They also probably influenced how you write the summaries of the Zinczenko essay, too!
ReplyDelete"Unrealistic" is a good way to describe everything happening in the Prologue of this novel (and for much of the book). One thing that I can say (and it's just my opinion) is that while the time travel in Kindred is absolutely unrealistic, the way it's presented - as something matter-of-fact that happens, which Dana doesn't want, and which is controlled by some sort of force that has to do with her genetic link to Rufus - makes it easier for me to accept it (again, personally speaking) than if it were more traditionally fantasy or science fiction. Just my 2c!