None Of Us Are Free Poem Analysis

Many relations are presented between the novel Kindred and the song, “None Of Us Are Free”. This novel by Octavia E. Butler paints a vivid image of the character Dana Franklin, who follows an emotional and physical path, transporting periodically between her home in 1976 and to the Antebellum South in the early nineteenth century. Dana, who underestimates her own courage, does not have the belief of surviving the Antebellum South. As the novel unfolds, it is clear that Dana, is indeed, a courageous woman after all. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, being free is “the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice and action.” There comes a time where people are in deep pain and/or misery, but there are also times where one’s …show more content…
The saying of the “valves crying across the ocean and crying across the land” demonstrates Alice, Isaac, Tess, Luke, Nigel, and the rest of the characters that play the role as a slave. They are the people who are “in the darkness and can’t see light”. Due to one’s loneliness, owners such as Rufus Weylin shows his ignorance and cruelty by anger and violence (Butler 258). Rufus does not know how to control his anger and does not have someone who he can share his feelings with, so what he does is he lashes out on other people. This results to the slave’s misery because they are always kept down from owners. These slave owners kept slaves feeling undeserving, and following that, they are kept in their owner’s shadows. Slaves work for hours, obey almost everything their masters tell them to do, but they get nothing in return, not even appreciation, but pain. Many slave owners beat or whip slaves when making minor mistakes, or even for their own entertainment. Since slaves get beaten, they experience almost the same as other slaves who feel their depression and suffering. (Butler 156). The slaves that share the same feelings can “join together spiritually, in heart and mind, and know the suffering that they all share, show others that they are not …show more content…
This demonstrates a group of individuals who are willing to spread the message and stand on their own rights. It’s their life, not the owners, and they should not let anyone control their own life. “It is time to make some changes, time to realize that the truth is shining right before their eyes” . Slaves have to do something about a problem or situation if something seems unfair. They are either going to have to deal with racism for the rest of their lives, or do something about it and make a change. Blacks or Africans are considered as people too, and they should have the mindset of equality and being treated with respect. One’s skin color does not indicate their social class or social status. Dana, however, begins with a strong headed women in the opening of the novel. As we get into the novel, Dana’s stability weakens as she struggles to establish her identity and maintain her freedom. Dana gets treated more like a slave as each day past. Dana planned to kill Rufus for a long while, but her durability was unquestionable. As the story unfolds, things get a lot more intense, and as for Rufus, he starts getting out of control. Getting to the point of chaos, Dana had to stab Rufus for self-defense, and the action that Dana made was an accomplishment, because not only did she save herself from sexual assault, she had successfully survived the Antebellum South (Butler 260). Dana, clearly, has an abundant of strength. One’s strength can surely benefit