Commentary On Kindred
If different people started transporting between the past and the present which raise would mostly like be able to survive easier? Kindred was an interesting book about a black woman, named Dana that 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 reading lesson. She had just given him a spelling test. Probably two minutes after he finished the spelling test and she burned …show more content…
In the beginning, during the second time Dana transported to Rufus, after she urgently helped him put out the fire, he started in him bedroom. She was on her was to Alice’s house, when she saw patrollers there and they were beating on a black man with their whip. A few minutes after the patrollers left, Dana had gone back outside to get the blank it for Alice and one of the patrollers had returned for Alice’s mother. But when he saw Dana outside and saw how similar Dana as well as Alice’s mother looked he started saying he was going to turn her in as a runaway slave. Dana kind of did try to get away by digging her nails in his elbow. However, she did have an opportunity to make him let go of her ,but she was too much of a coward to do it. Dana thought, “I couldn’t do it. The thought sickened me” (Butler 42). As shown in my scene, in the beginning, she couldn’t even stab someone in the eyes, but in the end, she had acquired enough strength to kill Rufus. Thus here experience in the nineteenth century built on her
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 reading lesson. She had just given him a spelling test. Probably two minutes after he finished the spelling test and she burned …show more content…
In the beginning, during the second time Dana transported to Rufus, after she urgently helped him put out the fire, he started in him bedroom. She was on her was to Alice’s house, when she saw patrollers there and they were beating on a black man with their whip. A few minutes after the patrollers left, Dana had gone back outside to get the blank it for Alice and one of the patrollers had returned for Alice’s mother. But when he saw Dana outside and saw how similar Dana as well as Alice’s mother looked he started saying he was going to turn her in as a runaway slave. Dana kind of did try to get away by digging her nails in his elbow. However, she did have an opportunity to make him let go of her ,but she was too much of a coward to do it. Dana thought, “I couldn’t do it. The thought sickened me” (Butler 42). As shown in my scene, in the beginning, she couldn’t even stab someone in the eyes, but in the end, she had acquired enough strength to kill Rufus. Thus here experience in the nineteenth century built on her