different from them. Carrie rubbed Dana’s face to show her know that her skin color does not come off. The slaves on the Weylin plantation saw Dana as the house-nigger‚ handkerchief-head‚ and the female Uncle Tom. Her intellect and connection with Rufus is what made her seem as such. She was looked at as the house-nigger because she worked in the house cleaning and teaching Rufus and never on the field. Handkerchief-head is what the slaves called her because they didn’t feel like she identified with
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slavery. When Dana is in the 1800`s she is reduced to a slave. She is called not by her name‚ but is rather referred to as a nigger by her master and even some of the fellow slaves. She fights with Rufus to call her by her politically correct title of "black." She explains to him "I’m a black woman‚ Rufus. If you have to call me something other than my name‚ that’s it." Her ancestor‚ Alice‚ implies to her that she has brown-nosed the white man so much that she has forgotten the color of her own skin
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they offered." This turns out to be an ironic contrast to life at the Weylin plantation‚ where a slave who visits his wife without his master’s permission is brutally whipped. Perhaps a more painful realization for Dana is how this cruel treatment oppresses the mind. "Slavery of any kind fostered strange relationships‚" she notes‚ for all the slaves feel the same strange combination of fear‚ contempt‚ and affection toward Rufus that she does. At first she has difficulty comprehending Sarah’s patience
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antebellum South feels more like home to her then her real home does. I think this is because she is becoming increasing disconnected to her life in 1976. Whenever Dana is home she is always staying inside because she is afraid she will be sent back to Rufus at any given moment. She sends her time waiting by reading about slavery and studying. Therefore‚ even when she is “home” she is totally and completely consumed by her life in 1815. When Kevin returns to 1976 after five years in the antebellum South
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arrival at a river where she tries to rescue a drowning boy‚ Rufus‚ but is stopped when a man approaches her with a gun. We learn here that when Dana’s life is in danger‚ she returns to the modern day. When she jumps through time again‚ Dana’s shock by the use of the word “nigger” and by facing the harsh reality of slavery would be just as surprising to most readers today simply because it would not be just another story of the past. Rufus‚ as discussed in class‚ summons Dana’s presence in the nineteenth
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are boy mouth‚ and the boy came back to life. Mama said she tried to stop you when she saw you doing that to me because you were just some nigger she had never seen before. Then she remembers second Kings‚"(24). Robinson Crusoe gets mentioned when Rufus asks Dana to read to him while his leg is injured. The book is about a black man being on a slave-trade voyage after being shipwrecked. This reflects on Dana because she travels back in time to come and rescue an ancestor and ordered to work at the
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Octavia Butler’s Kindred was an astounding book written in 1979 about a character name Edana Franklin‚ who is simply called Dana‚ is pulled continuously back into the 19th century by a boy name Rufus every time his life is in danger. This book is an unconventional tail about slavery‚ sexism and racism. Not only is it entertaining but it stirs up deep emotions inside of you about your history. This story makes you feel love‚ compassion‚ hate‚ and sorrow all at once. Octavia Butler wrote this book
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the time difference between the 1800s and the 1970s provide a slight re-evaluation of her relationship to Kevin. unharmed. In the seconds before he dies and Dana returns to present-day California‚ Rufus makes a final‚ desperate grab at Dana’s arm. The result of this final action on the part of Rufus is the scene that begins “Kindred”: Dana comes to consciousness in the safety of her own home only to find that her arm has somehow fused itself to the wall of her bedroom. Butler shows us that Dana’s
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Time Travel and Its functions in Kindred Of all the readings we had recently‚ Kindred is my favorite piece. The plot and characters of the novel are really interesting and make me think a lot on the subject matter such as feminism‚ slavery and gender and race equality. However‚ after reading this novel‚ I do not consider it as a science fiction. Octavia Butler’s definition of the book as a “grim fantasy” seems more appropriate. Nevertheless‚ as a successful science fiction author‚ Butler incorporated
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