Dana & Kevin
Rufus
Time Travel
Image Analysis
It's in the Past
100
Dana is this age at the beginning of The River.

What is 26?

100
This is happening to Rufus when Dana arrives in the past the first time.

What is drowning in the river?

100

Dana is doing this when she time travels the first time.

What is unpacking books?

100

The artists use this to show when Dana is in her time or in the past.

What is different color schemes?

100

This person screams at Dana and hits her after Dana saves Rufus from drowning.

Who is Rufus's mom?

200

This is the date when the story starts.

What is June 9, 1976?

200

Rufus did this after his father sold the horse he wanted.

What is burned down the stable?

200

Dana feels this physical symptom before she time-travels.

What is dizziness?

200

Rufus's memories of drowning in the river are shown in these colors.

What are blue and green?

200

It is this year when Dana saves Rufus from the fire.

What is 1815?

300
Kevin tries to convince Dana to do this after she gets back from saving Rufus in the river.

What is go out to dinner for her birthday?

300

This was Rufus's reasoning for trying to burn down the house.

What is he wanted his father to lose all his money?

300

Seeing this sends Dana back to 1976 after she saves Rufus.

What is the barrel of a rifle?

300

in the top panel on p. 23, the artist shows this by blending the colors of 1976 with the light of Rufus's torch.

What is Dana's time travel/the change in times?

300

Rufus's time and place are dangerous for Dana because of this practice.

What is slavery?

400

Kevin tries to understand this after Dana comes back from the past the first time.

What is how she moved from one place in the room to another?

400

Dana was surprised to learn that her ancestor Rufus was this.

What is white?

400

Approximately this amount of time has passed between when Dana comes back from the past and when she gets pulled back again.

What is the same day/an hour/a few hours? 

400

These parts of the page are shown in different shapes based on the emotion they are supposed to convey.

What are speech bubbles?

400

After she saves Rufus from the fire, Dana expects this to happen.

What is she will go back to her own time?

500

Kevin and Dana are eating this kind of food when Dana disappears the second time.

What is Chinese food?

500

Rufus is the father of Dana's Grandma Hagar with this woman.

Who is Alice Greenwood?

500

On p. 7, the physical feature that shows time has passed for Dana.

What is the length of Dana's hair?

500

On p. 34 in the top right panel, the color changes back to 1976 colors to show this.

What is the people on the family tree are in the past.

500

Dana learns that Rufus is related to her in this way.

What is her great-grandfather?