The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace, Mahatma Gandhi. This quote connects to a motif shown in each story, Kindred and The Book of Martha by Octavia Butler. The motif shown in each story is power dynamics, wherein each, they both develop the motif throughout the books and similarly/differently deals with that motif. In Kindred, it is about a 26-year-old African American woman named Edana (Dana) Franklin. The current time period was 976, but then was suddenly sent back to 85, to save a boy named Rufus every time he is about to die. After she saved him, she saw a man with a gun who is Rufus dad, Tom Weiyln and she was sent back to her time when she thought she was going t die. Its only been less than a day when Dana was sent back, this time different. Rufus appeared to be older. The next time she visited Rufus, she was touching Kevin at the time so not only Dana but Kevin also came. Kevin had to d
eclare right away that Dana was his slave to save Dana from being owned by Tom, which he didnt want. After some time, they realized they would stay a long time and they wont know when they will get back so they had to make a way for Kevin to earn money to escape being able to buy necessaries, and for Dana to be able to stay safe while doing so. After some time, she got whipped by Tom for having a book, which is the beginning of the development of the motif of power dynamics. In The Book of Martha, it is about an African American woman, born into a mother who was age 4, homeless and poor and is pursuing a writing career. Martha met God in a dream or she thought. When God explains everything, how he wants Martha to make one choice in order to save humanity or perhaps destroy humanity, it makes Martha think about what would happen if she refuses, or what she would do if she were to make that choice, which also shows the motif of power dynamics.