Kindred in 3rd Person

In the novel Kindred by Octavia Butler we see the first hand events of an African American woman from California in the 1970s travel to the antebellum south in the 19th century. This novel then can be called a slave narrative witch is a first hand account of a slaves life. These are done in a first person perspective for the reason that it is the slave who is merely telling their life. Yet what …

…what the character was going threw and the third person shows how something different it is less emotional, but more factual and it is also far simpler as far as the emotional content is concerned. So it is to say that the third person perspective would have changed Kindred from an emotional novel of slave life in the antebellum south to a novel telling the reader the facts of slave life in the antebellum south.