In the 3rd short story in Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild: and other stories, "Near of Kin", the reader is taken through a series of events taking place in the home of the antagonist’s recently deceased mother with the antagonist’s uncle helping sort through papers. In the story the antagonist wrestles with feelings they have for their mother who wasn’t a very caring parent. Later in the story the reader learns that the “uncle” was actually her father and he helps soothe her thoughts by telling her how much her mother cared for her. The author describes the struggles that the mother went through emotionally by having a child with a family member which is vocalized through the uncle. After the antagonist speaks of how ashamed her mother was of