As mentioned in previous posts, there are definite similarities between Aura and Kindred. But I’ve noticed, and this was also touched on in class, that both stories show that history, or the past, will always return to disrupt the present in some form. In Kindred, Dana is consistently brought back to the eighteen teens and as a result, her life in 1976 is completely disorientated. Every time she comes back to the present, she is unsure how to behave, act, or feel. As Dana is brought back in time, her present is repeatedly disrupted. In Aura, Felipe’s present is disturbed when memories of the past arise as he edits General Llorente’s memoirs. I think the use of history in fiction is important because it shows the readers the importance of past and how it dictates our everyday lives.