Dana Point

might be willing to listen to her. Mitchell agrees with this theory as she points out “Rufus lives only because Dana saves his life again and again” (54). Dana attempts to first educate “Rufus to treat slaves with more respect” (Rushdy 145). This attempt of autonomy does not work, as Dana must save Rufus from a beating that might have killed him when attempts to rape his slave Alice Greenwood. In another attempt for autonomy, Dana tries to prove that in her time different races are considered…

In the novel Kindred, the main character Dana reveals how she is time traveling to a Maryland plantation in 1967, to conserve her bloodline. However, in this chapter the storm, Dana informs indirectly that Kevin and her made love. Nevertheless, Dana is drawn back to the past to save Rufus once again. Now, this time Rufus ends up with a horrible sickness known as malaria. Further on this chapter, Margret (Rufus mother) reappears after coming out of a mental hospital and is now trying to pretend…

the early stages of Kindred Dana becomes discouraged, which wasn't proven until later on. Dana doesn't believe she will be able to survive in the nineteenth century given how the story is told. As the story goes on it starts to show that she can. The story portrays her to have lots of courage to live her life in this time period.Octavia Butler transitions Dana to become a heroic figure in this fiction novel taken from her inner personality to do what she believes in. Dana is given that very task…

because she seems to have the ability to make the white people, especially her white “master”, be afraid of her. She even earns the respects of those detestable white people at some points, particularly when she applies her modern medical knowledge to cure Rufus and a black slave who Rufus “loves”. However, even though Dana is not influenced by the slavery as much as other slaves, she is impacted by the slaves around her, her family during her time there, to be precise. A critique from Lisa…

than the glorified, Spanish version of the conquest that many other countries had grown to know. Poma writes the letter in both poor Spanish and Quechua in order to find a way to connect with the Spanish. He also made it a point to write the story from the two different points of view” (486). “New Chronicle of Good Government" is seen as an autoethnography because Poma writes about his people in response to the way the spanish saw them, and about his adaptations to the new culture he had been…

novel Kindred with the main character Dana Franklin. In the story, Dana is forced to travel back in time to the 1800s in the South. She soon realizes every time she is forced to go back in time it is to help one of her white ancestors, Rufus Weylin. During this, the reader sees the decisions Dana has to make to survive as a black woman in that time and place. In Octavia Butler’s novel Kindred, she uses the…

in order to save the future ancestors of Dana. While she may be a free woman, Dana will find out the hard way about slavery. No books, movies or know-how would ever prepare Dana for the culture shock of her life. When Dana is transported back to 1976, she decides to pack more things, for when she is hurled back to the Antebellum. Dana discusses with her husband, Kevin about taking a map with her so she may find her way to Maryland. Kevin had mention to Dana, “I wish I had a road atlas for you.…

Throughout Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred there are a lot racial contexts that revolve around time traveling. In the novel, readers are introduced to a black woman, specifically African-American by the name of Dana who has a white husband named Kevin. Within the story, Dana time travels and she finds herself retracing her ancestral roots and background through slavery. Realizing that she is in the 1800s, she begins to connect the dots every time she passes out and goes back in time. She tries to…

changed significantly throughout the novel as a result of their experiences are Dana Yarboro and James Witherspoon. They are forced to navigate through a world in which societal conventions and intense emotions inhibit their ability to thrive. Although both James and Dana attempt to have a relationship, James’ selfish behaviors harm Dana’s emotional wellbeing and ultimately destroys whatever bond they once had. Dana Yarboro’s early childhood is marked by a strange detachment from her father.…

Dana Gioia builds an argument to persuade his audience that the decline of reading in America will have a negative effect on society by utilizing Ethos, Pathos and Logos through various persuasive writing tactics. In the first half of Gioia's piece "Why Literature Matters", he starts off by giving the audience a brief summary of the state of the U.S.A's young readers, this is essential for setting up his persuasive point because it insures the reader and writer are on the same page. The first…