Kindred 1
What is the connection between Dana and Rufus?
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The novel’s protagonist; goes back in time to ensure Rufus and Alice have a child; protects Rufus from danger.
Dana
True or False?
Isaac fights Rufus because he tried to assault his wife, Alice.
True
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Orwell suggests that language controls thought when he writes, “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four” (Orwell pg. 84).
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The central idea or underlying message that a writer explores throughout a literary work. It reflects a universal truth or insight about human nature, society, or life.
Theme
Name two reasons why Dana was sent to the past to save Rufus.
- Drowning
- Curtains are on fire
- The fight
- The storm
- Alice's death
What US state is Dana in when she visits the past?
Maryland
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She was sold to Rufus after she is caught running away with a slave; she then commits suicide after Rufus tells her that he sold their children.
Alice
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In To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus tells Scout, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.” (Lee 33)
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A complete sentence that expresses what the author is saying about a theme. It combines the main idea with the author’s insight—for example: “Power can corrupt even those with good intentions.”
Thematic Statement
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He whips Dana twice, abuses Rufus, and ultimately sends Kevin a letter telling him about Dana’s return to the Weylin Plantation.
Mr. Weylin
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He was sold and shipped down south after being caught as a runaway and for beating a white man; he had both ears cut off as punishment.
Isaac
Why does Tom Weylin beat Dana for the first time?
Because she stole a book from him in order to teach some of the slave children.
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Baldwin argues that “love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within” (James Baldwin 17).
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A method used in academic writing to credit sources within the text. It includes the author’s last name and the page number in parentheses after a quote or paraphrase—for example: (Butler 72).
MLA In-text citation
What does Tom Weylin NOT want the slaves to receive?
An education.
TRUE OR FALSE?
When Dana and Kevin go back to the past together, they lie and tell Mr. Weylin that they are from Massachusetts.
FALSE
What does Rufus do for Joe and Hagar after the funeral?
He gives them certificates of freedom.
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In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie finally finds peace in her independence “after she pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net” (Hurston, 191).
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A cultural and artistic movement that combines elements of science fiction, history, and fantasy to explore the experiences and futures of the African diaspora. It often reimagines Black identity and empowerment through futuristic or speculative settings.
Afrofuturism
What did Dana originally think about people like Sarah before she went back in time and experienced slavery first hand?
That they were cowards who didn't work hard enough to make things better.
What happened to those who lived on the Weylin plantation after Rufus’s death?
Most were sold, but we don't know what happened to Joe and Hagar.
What incident causes Dana to return to the present at the end of “The Fall”?
She was whipped by Tom Weylin.
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King asserts that, “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” (King 63).
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A term meaning “before the war,” commonly used to describe the period in the southern United States before the Civil War (roughly early 1800s to 1861).
Antebellum