Kindred Octavia E.Butler
In the book Kindred,Dana is suddenly transported to the past to help,save and protect one of her ancestors,Rufus.Everytime Rufus is in trouble Dana appears and saves him and the only way to get back is if she is in a near death situation or is in terrible danger.Dana is scared that if she does not save him then she will never get back.The relationship between Rufus and Dana changes from respectful to hurtful over the course of the novel because Alice kills herself.
The relationship between Rufus and Dana is respectful.Rufus and Dana are talking,she is telling him not to play with fire and not to call her a nigger even if his mother calls her that.
“your mother always call black people niggers Rufe?”sure except when she has company why not?”his air of innocent questioning confused me eitheir he really didn’t know what he was saying or he had a career waiting in hollywood whichever it was he wasn’t going to go on saying it to me im a black woman if you have to call me,anything,that’s it pg(26)”.
This shows that Rufus and Dana’s relationship is respectful because Dana could tell Rufus not to do something or not to call her a nigger and he would listen.
Later on in the novel Rufus is telling Dana he’s sorry in his own way for putting her on the field for to work as punishment for killing his father even though she didnt kill him,Rufus called Dana to help him write some letters for him.
The Essay on Science Fiction Dana Time Slavery
Octavia Butler's novel Kindred is categorized as science fiction because of the existence of time travel. However, the novel does not center on the schematics of this type of journey. Instead, the novel deals with the relationships forged between a Los Angeles woman from the 20 th century, and slaves from the 19 th century. Therefore, the mechanism of time travel allows the author a sort of ...
“I brought you down here to write a few letters for me not fight with me”.”letters?…..”you didnt hate it six years ago”I didn’t have to do it then.I didn’t have eight or nine people all wanting answers and wanting them now….you’ll never know how hard I worked in my own time to avoid doing jobs like this….yes I do Kevin told me he told me about the books you wrote too your own books”.(pg226)
This shows that Rufus and Dana’s relationship is respectful because Rufus is giving and allowing Dana to write stuff down on paper for her own value but first she has to write some letters for him .It shows that Rufus respects that she writes her own books and essays and even when Dana is punished some how she forgives Rufus.
By the end of the novel the realtionship between Rufus and Dana is hurtful.Rufus and Dana are talking and when she brings up alice he says if he ever want’s Dana in bed like he wants Alice he will kill himself.
“if I ever caught myself wanting you like I want her I’d cut my throat he said I hope that problem would never arise if it did one of us would do some cutting all right”.(pg164)
This shows that the relationship between Rufus and Dana is hurtful because Rufus threatens to kill himself if he would ever wanted Dana and Dana wouldnt really want that to happen because she said if it ever came to that she would kill him first.
At the very end of the story Rufus is trying to rape Dana because since the death of Alice Rufus feels lonely and that she and Dana are one woman
“he was not hurting me,would not hurt me if I remained as I was he was not his father old and ugly,brutal and disgusting he smelled of soap as though he had bathed recently-for me?The red hair was neatly combed and a little damp.I would never be to him what tess had been to his father a thing passed around like the whiskey jua ata husking.He would’nt do that to me or sell me or No…(pg260)
This shows that the relationship between Rufus and Dana is hurtful because Rufus is trying to take advantage of Dana in a way she never thought he would do.Rufus is trying to rape Dana and towards the middle of the novel Rufus said if ever wanted Dana the way he wanted Alice he would slit his throat and here he is now trying to rape Dana and it leads to Dana hurting both Rufus and herself in the process.
The Essay on The Relationships Of In The Gloaming
Watching a loved one die is one of the most difficult events a person can experience in life. Some people come to terms with the death of their loved one, reconcile their differences, and their death brings acceptance and closure. For others, a family member’s death leaves them with a sense of regret and guilt. Alice Elliott Dark’s short story “In The Gloaming” shows examples of how people react ...
The relationship between Rufus and Dna changes over the course of the novel at first Rufus would respect Dana than out of nowhere Alice kills herself and Rufus turns hurtful towards Dana.
This connects to life today because lots of men or/and woman in the world have respect for each other.But sometimes when these humans get drunk or high they do stupid stuff.They drain all of the respect out and turn hurtful.They beat on their loved ones,or even try to rape them such as Rufus tried to do to Dana and turns their entire relationship bad.
Rufus and Dana have a powerful relationship towards each other its very complicated.They love each other,they protect each other,they hurt each other,yet they hate each other with a passion.Rufus and Dana’s relationshi[ is’nt exactly what you call a good one.But they often forgive and foget in a couple of hours after a fight.But basically they can’t stand each others silence they have a bond that can’t be broken.Even through everything that bond will never be broken because of the love they share for each other.
