Dana’s Game of Hide and Seek
Dana’s Game of Hide and Seek Hide and seek is a game familiar to almost every child worldwide. A simple yet exciting game where some players hide while one or more seekers try to find them. The hiders must find clever places to conceal themselves. Holding their breath, switching hiding places, sabotaging others, just for them to be safe- anything to win a simple game. The childhood game parallels Dana's experiences in Octavia Butler’s Kindred . Dana takes on the role of a hider, navigating a dangerous world she barely understands and first and is desperate trying not to be discovered. At the start of the novel, Dana is violently placed into a past where she is still figuring out how to work and keep herself alive. After Rufus, the young w...