Reading Quiz/Blog Post for November 16

• This narrative's genre is categorized as science fiction. Discuss the effect of using time travel as a narrative device. Why use it? What does it provide for the story?

The fact that the author use time travel as a means to tell the story, adds a factor of anxiety, which is reflected through the protagonist and her husband. I think it's also a way to see how a story that belongs to another time, it affects someone who lives in the present, in contemporary times, this way the reader wonders how I would have felt I have traveled back in time or would have reacted to interact with someone from another era. The author points out, through the protagonist, the differences between past and present, in relation to how people are treated depending on their ethnic origin.

• Identify 3 or 4 places in the text where research comes in. Where do you see historical facts? Where do you see things you could look up or even footnote? 

The places where work is seen research by the author are (1) the beach in which the child is choking. (2) Then the company owned by the family of Rufus, as well as cotton fields in which the author shows that consultants perhaps history books or historical documents of the date.

• How is historical fact seamlessly woven into this obviously fictional narrative?

The author shows not only historical data but also adds to this character that serves as the protagonist of the events and can also live firsthand the discrimination of which were people of color objects.