Blog # 8 "The Storm", "The Rope",and "Epilogue'

  

Blog # 8

"The Storm," "The Rope",and  "Epilogue".

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Dana and Kevin  go back home, Dana has been away for two months, Kevin was for five years.During this period he traveled through the cities of the Northeast.  He worked as a teacher to survival, also he helped to slave to escape when he could.

When Dana returned, after she had had whipped by Tom Weylin, she met her cousin and and she thought that Kevin had abused of her,in that time was easy to think that because they were interracial couple and living in times of slavery the cousin assumes that Kevin as white man would talking possession of Dana for being black women, but this is a result for stay in the plantations, she was exposed to all kind of treatment and humiliations by the masters, they didn't' her because she as different at the rest of the slaves, that the masters could treatment as usual or according to them as their owner.

Dana had to pay a price for living in the plantations and find her past and her ancestors, living with Rufus, that was a selfish and white man that wanted that Dana was taking  care of him and he  called her whatever he had in trouble.

The most important in this novel was that, Butler made that Dana returned to the present, but no complete, after she had lived into the slavery and seeing all treatment that black  people were exposed, fighting with Rufus, and being wiped by Tom Weylin, she finally returned to present, but she left her own part there, she returned without her arm it was left behind, piece from her in stayed in the past.  She learned to live without her arm,  a sign that she became a slave.  She was obligate to lose her own essence.

Blog # 6

"The Fall"

Blog # 6 

 

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3. Tom Weylin believes Dana is trouble.  In what ways is Dana dangerous to the way of life in the Weylin household?

 Dana and Kevin met together and they started to work in a market it was called "slave market" She liked to write and she did until late at night.  Dana and Kevin worked together and their coworkers criticized them for be interracial couple. Kevin was a writer too and he liked to write novel, they started to talk each other, and Dana didn't have enough money to eat so Kevin bought some food for her.                                  
 The novel started when a boy was in the river, with his mom and Dana a black lady that had moved to love in los Angeles with her husband Kevin, they were in their apartment and she got dizzy and her mind went to the river, where was a boy with his mom, the boy was droning into the water and that moment Dana took the boy who his name was Rufus, and took him out the water, and began to mouth resuscitation.  Rufus began breathing on his own

Rufus's mother thought that Dana had had killed her son, and started yelling her and telling that her son was dying, so after a while Tom Weylin, was a Rufus's father appeared behind Dana and he points a gun at Dana, she thought that she was going to be shout for saving his son, she was terrifying.  In this moment Dana's life was in dangerous, she thought was to die, but when she thinks that her life is in dangerous, she got back to the normal life in her apartment.

Later on Dana was in he apartment with Kevin and she got dizzy, and was transported to the south where Rufus, had had fallen from a tree and his leg was broken.While she was taking care of Rufus, Tom Weylin came was Rufus's father, a white and rude and cruel man. Rufus was like his father, a white and selfish that only wanted to have slave an retained them as a slave. Dana and Kevin knew all family in the Weylin's house, Margaret, Rufus's mother, Sarah, Alice and other member of her ancestor.

    Dana's life was in dangerous many times, while she lived in the Weylin's house, whatever Rufus's life was in dangerous, from the time when he was a child through a adulthood, foreign Dana rescue him.  Also when she was teaching to read at the kids in the plantations, she was exposed to be discover.  All in the plantations saw her different, because the way how to speaks and how she dress up, every body noticed that she couldn't be a slave.