Tom Weylin and his wife‚ Margaret‚ both resent Dana because she is an educated black woman with proper dialect. The wife even goes as far as throwing coffee on her and slapping her‚ while the husband sends flirtatious signs her way and even tries to buy her‚ but Dana refuses. Dana tells Kevin of these experiences on the plantation‚ and he tells her she needs to leave‚ but she only agrees to leave when Rufus’s leg has fully healed. Nigel‚ who is a thirteen year old slave on Weylin’s plantation asks
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Rufus Weylin and Tom Weylin In Rufus’s youth he had hated and feared his father but as he grew older he had grown to respect his father. 1. Rufus burned the stable when he did not get what he wanted for example. He felt no need to talk it out with someone he had no respect for therefore he resorted to drastic actions to capture his father’s attention and communicate his contention. 2. As Rufus became older he began talking to his father often talking the people or slaves he liked out of
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“The boy was literally growing up as I watched-growing up because I watched and because I help keep him safe.” (Butler 68). Rufus Weylin in Kindred is a reckless kid that is always needing saving. The kid is a walking nightmare‚ not yet sensible to make competent choices‚ he is always in some kind of woe. The one constant in his rollercoaster of a life is Dana; Dana is his savior when he truly needs her help the most. Octavia Butler really takes readers on an attention-grabbing journey of Rufus’
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plantation. Kevin seems to be an image of Rufus‚ and the Weylins and their houses are similar. Kevin grew out his beard during the years he was there to help disguise him‚ because he was helping freeing slaves. He is unable to remember how to operate any device like the TV or typewriter. Kevin gets upset and angry at Dana as she gets dizzy. When Dana arrives‚ Rufus is face down in the mud‚ because he had been drinking. Nigel carries him to the house. Weylin who is now much older agreed to let her stay as
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that makes a slave‚ and in doing so takes away their humanity. Tom Weylin knows that he can have any female slave that he wants; stripping that person of her dignity and sense of ownership in her own body. In using his slaves for his own sexual conquests Weylin is making it clear that he owns their bodies‚ not them. This is how he can make slaves. By stripping them of their own sense of self-worth‚ slaves know that it is Weylin who decides their fate not them. Upon seeing Dana step out of Kevin’s
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understanding of what kind of actions were going on back then. All the characters in this book change over time‚ but Dana‚ Tom Weylin‚ and Rufus are all paragons because they convey multiple traits that lead to great reactions from the reader. Dana‚ the main character
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Doctor Rufus Weylin from Crownsville Hospital Center for the Insane said my arm would feel better in a couple days time. It all started when Kevin and I began having random hallucinations. We had no clue why they occurred or how they started‚ but they happened every day. Kevin and I were emitted to this “coo coo’s nest” two months ago by Kevin’s sister‚ Carol. She knew of our hallucinations and was starting to get worried‚ so she had this amazing idea to emit us because we are “insane.” We did not
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with new experiences as blacks are considered a lower class to all white males and females. As Dana is treated as a slave to the Weylin’s in 1815‚ Kevin tries his best to get Dana to leave the Weylin household. Dana and Kevin have both noticed that several of the female slaves’ children resemble the Weylin family. The 1800’s and late 1900’s are drastically different as Kevin and Dana both don’t know how to react too many situations in the 1800’s. They rely on each other for support as
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who surrounded her and tried to ease their horrific life conditions. Compared with Weylin family Dana was an educated black woman. Margaret disdained Dana for close relationship with her son. Jealousy and anger forced her to treat Dana insignificantly. Margaret made her sleep on the cold floor thus trying to separate a couple and to get Kevin. She hated anyone or anything who would be between her and Rufus. Tom Weylin also didn’t like Dana. Her interactions with slaves made him worry. He feared that
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Octavia Butler‚ author of the novel Kindred‚ focuses on the main issues surrounding race and gender‚ and their effects on the experiences the characters in the story as they face slavery. The novel focuses on how the system of slavery shapes its central characters‚ emphasizing society’s power to effect a change in identities through certain race and gender. The construction of the concept of "race" and its connections to slavery are central themes in Butler’s novel. Butler uses the work of time travel
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