Racism In Kindred
Kindred is about a girl named Dana who is teleported from the 1970’s back to the 1800’s slave era when a boy named Rufus is in danger of losing his life. Dana faces many hardships and learns many things about her ancestors and the environment they grew up in. Tom Weylin is Rufus’s father and considered an evil man along with his son as he grows older. They both commit what this era would consider violent crimes, but in there time it was considered perfectly normal. Surprisingly there are many similarities between the WWII era and the time Dana traveled back to.
It could be argued that patrollers are one of the top reasons to keep slaves from trying to escape. The fear they instilled on slaves made them reluctant to even try. “Patrollers made …show more content…
He actually whipped his son when he felt he wronged him in any way. “He turned and pulled up his shirt so that I could see the crisscross of long red welts. And I could see old marks, ugly scars of at least one much worse beating” (Butler 26). This was simply because Tom thought Rufus stole money from him when he said he didn’t. This indicates how untrustworthy he was of anyone around him, including his own son. His personality is much like Joseph Stalin’s. Stalin himself “was not an emotional man. He was cold, and had limited love or affection” (Stalin's Personality). Mr. Weylin “wasn’t a monster at all. Just an ordinary man who sometimes did the monstrous things his society said were legal and proper. But I had seen no particular fairness in him. He did what he pleased. If you told him he wasn’t being fair, he would whip you for talking back” (Butler 134). This shows how unemotional Tom Weylin really was.
In conclusion, Kindred was about a girl who would travel between time periods to help a boy named Rufus. Rufus and his father were considered normal in there time but terrible in the time Dana grew up in. They also had many similarities to the communist leaders Hitler and Stalin. As it turns out, human nature can change very little over the period of time. Whether it be the monstrous acts of the 1800’s or the terrible things Hitler and Stalin have done in the early
It could be argued that patrollers are one of the top reasons to keep slaves from trying to escape. The fear they instilled on slaves made them reluctant to even try. “Patrollers made …show more content…
He actually whipped his son when he felt he wronged him in any way. “He turned and pulled up his shirt so that I could see the crisscross of long red welts. And I could see old marks, ugly scars of at least one much worse beating” (Butler 26). This was simply because Tom thought Rufus stole money from him when he said he didn’t. This indicates how untrustworthy he was of anyone around him, including his own son. His personality is much like Joseph Stalin’s. Stalin himself “was not an emotional man. He was cold, and had limited love or affection” (Stalin's Personality). Mr. Weylin “wasn’t a monster at all. Just an ordinary man who sometimes did the monstrous things his society said were legal and proper. But I had seen no particular fairness in him. He did what he pleased. If you told him he wasn’t being fair, he would whip you for talking back” (Butler 134). This shows how unemotional Tom Weylin really was.
In conclusion, Kindred was about a girl who would travel between time periods to help a boy named Rufus. Rufus and his father were considered normal in there time but terrible in the time Dana grew up in. They also had many similarities to the communist leaders Hitler and Stalin. As it turns out, human nature can change very little over the period of time. Whether it be the monstrous acts of the 1800’s or the terrible things Hitler and Stalin have done in the early