The Relationship between Rufus, Dana, and Alice in Kindred
ENGL 101
Prof. Donsky
The Relationships between Rufus and Dana, and Alice
In the story, Dana saves Rufus whenever he is in danger. Alice is Rufus’s free back woman friend. Rufus has complicated relationship with Dana and Alice. In relationship with Dana, Rufus likes Dana since she saves his life. However, Things changes as time goes. As Rufus grow up, he becomes likely white person in slavery time. Rufus tries to have power over Dana and Alice who are both black. There is relationship with Alice as his slave, which is unimaginable in that time. And also, after Alice’s death, there is relationship with Dana as a black woman like Alice.
According to the book “Kindred”, Dana says “maybe that was why we didn’t hate each other. We could hurt each other too badly, kill each other too quickly in hatred. He was like a younger brother to me.” As I can see in the book, they did not hate each other. They both always had to kill or harm each other. However, they didn’t. Moreover, Rufus had a confidence that Dana is very trustable person. Dana liked Rufus when he was young kind kid. He took care of slaves and began to have interests in slaves’ children. However, Rufus turned to bad kid. He raped Alice, sent Dana to the field, and lied about the letter for Kevin. Dana started to feel afraid of Rufus because she had no way to know what Rufus would do since he did anything he wanted. Rufus was very confused about how he felt for Dana. She was nice to him. He would never tell his feelings. According to the story, I can see that he was in love with Alice. However, after she died, he started to take Dana. We may assume the reason that Dana and Alice both were black woman and had short hair.
Rufus had irregular relationship with Alice. As the book shows, Rufus loved Alice. On page 147, Dana noted that “he spoke out of love for the girl – a destructive love, but a love, nonetheless.” It was very unlikely, since white people do not fall in love with black people at that time. And
Prof. Donsky
The Relationships between Rufus and Dana, and Alice
In the story, Dana saves Rufus whenever he is in danger. Alice is Rufus’s free back woman friend. Rufus has complicated relationship with Dana and Alice. In relationship with Dana, Rufus likes Dana since she saves his life. However, Things changes as time goes. As Rufus grow up, he becomes likely white person in slavery time. Rufus tries to have power over Dana and Alice who are both black. There is relationship with Alice as his slave, which is unimaginable in that time. And also, after Alice’s death, there is relationship with Dana as a black woman like Alice.
According to the book “Kindred”, Dana says “maybe that was why we didn’t hate each other. We could hurt each other too badly, kill each other too quickly in hatred. He was like a younger brother to me.” As I can see in the book, they did not hate each other. They both always had to kill or harm each other. However, they didn’t. Moreover, Rufus had a confidence that Dana is very trustable person. Dana liked Rufus when he was young kind kid. He took care of slaves and began to have interests in slaves’ children. However, Rufus turned to bad kid. He raped Alice, sent Dana to the field, and lied about the letter for Kevin. Dana started to feel afraid of Rufus because she had no way to know what Rufus would do since he did anything he wanted. Rufus was very confused about how he felt for Dana. She was nice to him. He would never tell his feelings. According to the story, I can see that he was in love with Alice. However, after she died, he started to take Dana. We may assume the reason that Dana and Alice both were black woman and had short hair.
Rufus had irregular relationship with Alice. As the book shows, Rufus loved Alice. On page 147, Dana noted that “he spoke out of love for the girl – a destructive love, but a love, nonetheless.” It was very unlikely, since white people do not fall in love with black people at that time. And