Blog # 9 "Looking back at Kindred"

 Blog # 9          

Looking back at Kindred

Dana, Alice and Sarah 

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1.  Like Butler's mother, Sarah, Alice and Dana are forced to endure constant exploitation an degradation to survive and to allow others to survive. Taking Fowler's definition of heroins into account.

Dana was a strong  and educated e independent black woman, who got married with white men, it was unusual couple in1976, and less acceptable in1819.
When she thought that she had everything, appeared Rufus in her life and pulled her to the past to protect his life. She was obligated to see the horrors of living and being a slave, being Rufus's obsessive way to treat her. But Dana had the encourage to see the worst life and the slavery world.
She was whipped, slapped, insulted and humiliated, she was treated like a real slave. But she resisted everything with dignity and face the felt compassion for all the people who lived around her, how they were treated, and forced to live in slavery. Dana felt great pain for the slaves, not because they were salves and black, also because they are human beings.

Also when Dana was in the Weylin's house she knew Alice, Sarah and they were living in the Tom Weylin house. Sarah was who thought  Dana to cook, gave some advances about how work in the plantations. She show her the real face of being slave, how hard was living in the slavery fields, how the kids were separated from their mother to be sold by masters, how the families were spread out and how they lived accepting the kind of life. Sarah had good hard and convinces Dana not kill Rufus, she is very sweet and compassionate woman. Her daughter  Carrie is mute, she lived with her because she can  be sold for her defect.

Alice was a Rufus's  Childhood friend, but he didn't want her as a friend,he wanted her his wife, but she got married with another slave his name was Isaac Jackson, and treated to run away with him, because Rufus didn't like him, so he wanted Alice too,but they were caught, and Rufus sent Isaac to the South and Alice was bought by him, she was forced to be a slave, Rufus was obsessive with her, and wanted her to do whatever he wanted, she have only affection.  She has four kids with him,and this is the power she has over him but she wanted to run away, he was angry and sent the kids away, and made her feel very bad the kids well be sold, she was deeply but he children were near. Rufus made this to Alice because she looked to Dana  and he was obsessive with one of his ancestors specially with Dana. Alice was beat, raped and mentally and psychologically and degraded by her master.

Butler put in his novel to this three ladies, Sarah, Alice and Dana, to show how each one in their fields were heroins and great examples. As her self was obligated to work very hard since she was 10 years old in many jobs. All of this endured her after many years of sacrifices and built in her the characteristics of the hero.
The same way Butler described and made the novel as a example of putting in  Dana, Sarah, Alice's life as a sacrifices and showed how they became heroins.
Dana being a black woman educated, strong that was living in plantations and doing and being treated as never, Sarah as good mother  that with her sweeter love knew how to gain the Dana's love and working in the slavery with resignation and taking care of her mute daughter,and finally Alice was a victim of Rufus that he wanted to retain her and took her children. She loved her kids and had to support all of this.

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"

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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.