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Analysis of Kindred by Octavia Butler 

Pgs.169-237

Sha Hongkun

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SUMMARY

Pgs.169-237

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Dana nurses Alice back to health. There is still no word from Kevin, and Dana sends more letters. Rufus gives Dana a horrible ultimatum—either she makes Alice consent to having sex with him, or he will have her beaten into submission. Alice, weary and terrified, agrees.

Discovering that Rufus never sent any of her letters to Kevin, Dana escapes, but is caught and whipped. Tom sends for Kevin, and he arrives as Dana reaches her breaking point. Riding away, Rufus shoots at them, and they are dragged back to the present.

Back in 1976, Kevin finds it impossible to adjust. Dana finds herself pulled back again. Rufus is very ill. Dana helps him recover, but is unable to help Tom when he collapses with a heart attack. Blaming her, Rufus sends her into the fields. Fowler beats her into working until she loses consciousness .

Slavery

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The Fight

Butler, through her white characters, shows not only how easily slaves are made, but also how easily slaveholders are made.

For example, Dana realizes that Rufus is conspiring to keep her captive by not sending her letters, and she runs away that night. And than she realizes firsthand how easily fear and helplessness work to make a person accept slavery.

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Dana realizes that Sarah has made her choice, and for her, it is a choice informed not only by fear of physical harm, but by the suffering she has already faced in seeing her own children sold into slavery, seeing her only remaining daughter, Carrie, remain a slave, seeing her grandchildren born into slavery, and her fear for their safety as well.

After Dana fails to escape and is captured and brutally beaten by Tom Weylin, she learns firsthand the consequences of making a choice opposite to Sarah’s. She realizes that “nothing in my education or knowledge of the future had helped me to escape. Yet in a few years an illiterate runaway named Harriet Tubman would make nineteen trips into this country and lead three hundred fugitives to freedom. . . . Why was I so frightened . . . that sooner or later, I would have to run again? . . . See how easily slaves are made?”

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Rufus Weylin can grow up to rape a woman, see her husband sold, and purchase her for himself—but at the same time, feel love for Alice and for Dana.

And Tom Weylin can beat his slaves with horsewhips, separate their families, and rape the women, because the society he lives in not only gives him the power to behave this way, but expects it of him.

The beatings he gives to his slaves, and to Dana, are motivated not so much from sadism as from a calculated need he sees to maintain order and not lose his investments – that is, his slaves.

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Pgs.209-237

The Storm

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Despite Dana’s continued attempts to influence Rufus to become a more sympathetic and enlightened slave-owner, Rufus seems to have turned into the callous and unsympathetic man his father was.

He, like Tom Weylin, has mastered the means by which to use his power to force his slaves into submission. He demonstrates this ability aptly by threatening to send Dana to the fields should she ever disobey him.

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Questions

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1.Rufus is key in bringing out the theme of slavery. How is slavery demonstrated through his character?

2.Outline the theme that comes out clearly in the fight between Isaac and Rufus?

3.Kevin is stranded in the past for five years, while Dana is there for less than one year. Why did Bulter feel Kevin needed to stay in the past so much longer than Dana?

4.How have their experiences affected their relationship to each other and to the world around them?

5.Dana finds herself caught in the middle of the relationship between Rufus and Alice. Why does Rufus use Dana to get to Alice?

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