protagonist who makes time travel for the sake of Rufus’ (white man) salvation. The main character is Dana. She experiences what it feels like to be a black slave female. A twenty-six years old woman faces with the unbelievable events of the 19th century in the south of America. The 19th century was the time of slavery and racial inequality. Dana
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differences. Octavia Butler most definitely uses Rufus Weylin in the novel‚ Kindred to show how closed minded a child can become through his whole life. Everything Rufus picked up was from mainly his father‚ Mr. Weylin. If only Rufus did not pick up all the bad influences from society and his father. In Kindred‚ Octavia Butler uses Rufus Weylin’s childhood and adulthood to portray that prejudice is learned from society and parental views. From the second time Rufus and Dana met‚ he already begins to use offensive
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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
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making violence towards blacks socially acceptable. Unfortunately‚ not only was it socially acceptable to abuse your slaves‚ but a slavemaster would be looked down upon if he did not. In Kindred‚ Tom Weylin shows his authority through regular whippings of slaves. When a field hand responded rudely‚ “Weylin ordered the man stripped naked and tied to the trunk of a dead tree...Suddenly‚ he brought the whip down across the slave’s back” (Butler 92). This quote shows how if any slave questioned his
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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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started transporting between the past and present periods. She would always transport to the past to help a white boy named Rufus before he did something that would kill him. Each time she would transport to help Rufus he would be a few years older and she would be there for a longer period of time. The passage in the story that connects with me the most was when Tom Weylin whipped Dana for disobeying him by stealing and reading his books. What had happened was Dana was in the middle of Nigel’s
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in the 20th century then the 19th century. Kevin is not really a patriarch but I could imagine him being one if Dana let him. Mr. Tom Weylin owned the plantation that Dana’s great grandfather Rufus was a slave hand on. Dana’s quick wit and ability to think clearly during times of stress are put to the test when "Just as I reached the stairs‚ Tom Weylin came out of his bedroom. "What are you doing up here?" he demanded." (Kindred‚ 89) Further more he presses her for information "For a moment
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her 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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life of Rufus‚ who was the father of an ancestor‚ on several different occasions. Despite the fact that he abuses‚ rapes‚ and enslaves her. She must keep in mind that she must think and act as a strong‚ free and educated black women even when placed in a time of cruel racist time. The husband of Dana is Kevin Franklin‚ Undeterred by the objections his family had on their marriage. He enjoys to be the one in charge and through the story he thinks that Dana might be enjoying her time with Rufus. He has
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forced to watch over the survival of her own ancestors due to their survival being critical to the survival of her own existence in the world. For Dana this responsibility creates a consistent fear of her time spent in the antebellum south within the Weylin plantation. While on the plantation Dana encounters a life style no person from modern culture would expect. The quote “I’m not sure it’s
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