time travel. Alice Greenwood and Rufus Weylin both had a peculiar relationship with Dana‚ as well as with each other. The ties that
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It didn’t take very long for another dizzying time travel phenomenon to occur this time‚ she is pulled back to 1815. She finds Rufus watching his curtains. Dana quickly puts out the fire‚ talks to Rufus about it‚ and escapes from the house before Weylin‚ Rufus’s father‚ finds her. Dana goes to Alice’s house because she believes that she is an ancestor. Before she was able to arrive at the cabin‚ a group of white men break down the door whips Alice’s and beat him. They also beat Alice’s mother. After
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The novel Kindred by Octavia E. Butler‚Written in 1976 in Maryland‚ Tells a story about an interracial couple who time travels back in time to the early 1800’s to antebellum Maryland. It Is a dystopian world told in first person by the protagonist and one of the main characters‚ Dana. Dana is a young black women writer who finds Struggling to survive in maryland. Dana must go back in time to save the future of her existing family tree by saving the life of Rufus‚ who was the father of an ancestor
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Kindred: A Story of Alienation Since the dawn of time‚ society’s views on inequalities have been its greatest shortcoming. The fact of the matter is‚ there are several aspects in society that determines these inequalities. In the novel Kindred by Octavia Butler‚ Dana is alienated from society through race‚ class‚ and gender. Thus‚ she faced much hardships and tribulations throughout the novel. Society’s outlook of African Americans caused Dana to be abused on many different levels‚ especially
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the past‚ Dana called the temp agency where she worked a "slave market‚" even though "the people who ran it couldn’t have cared less whether or not you showed up to do the work 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
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Might have to take the whippin for it later on‚ but if you want it bad enough the whippin won’t matter much (96). Luke is slave ‚ explaining to his son Nigel the way of interacting and communicating with white people . Luke is a typical slave on the Weylin plantation‚ he does what’s expected of him and helps keep things in order. But this particular time Dana is using Luke’s advice for herself. Octavia Butler uses conflicts to prove mans inhumanity to man by explaining how just talking anyway wasn’t
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inhumane and unintelligent. Race is what links Dana to the other slaves although they wanted to let her know that she was no 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
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Professor Cox English 211-009 Irma Lozada 3/30/09 Essay #2-Kindred by Octavia butler a figurative representation of the cultural meaning and construction of gender and race in her society. In its metaphoric interpretation‚ the loss of her limb therefore signifies something much stronger and darker. It acts as a powerful statement on the sacrifices that black Americans‚ especially black female Americans‚ have to make in order to coexist in a hostile world. live in a world that enables them
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Memory Deficit Miriam Perez Duarte Nova Southeastern University Professor Weylin Stemglanz Introduction to Psychology Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a mentally crippling anxiety disorder‚ which is defined by obsessive thoughts‚ images‚ or impulses that persist regardless of the person’s endeavors to defeat them (Gerrig & Zimbardo‚ 2010). Some common OCD experiences are: extreme checking‚ extreme cleaning‚ and any habit that is taken to the extreme;
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