Dana's Narrative

For her, everyday acts seem much more enjoyable when on drugs. She goes out of their way to experience something new and exciting. She is a creative writer and uses drugs as a way to get back to her child-like imaginative state. Suddenly, with the drugs back in her life, she seems to have much more insight and a wilder imagination. "And the afternoon was absinthe yellow and almond, burnt orange and chrysanthemum. And in the abstract sky, a litany of kites"(93). She longs to feel this way all of the time, but she knows the consequences. She sees doing drugs like going to a carnival. It is an escape from the boring life she is leading now. Even though she has a daughter, she still feels like there is something she is missing out on. The idea of motherhood takes backseat to her lust for drugs.

When Ruby goes to her room the reader discovers that Ruby is very a materialistic girl, she begins to complain about her phone as well as how she requires makeup to look good when she goes out, she’s more worried about her appearance than the real problem at hand which is acid rain that can brutally murder someone if they come in contact with it. Simon informs that her shower and sink are temporarily disabled until further notice, this infuriates Ruby which causes her to yell and almost erupt in tears, and this shows that she is very concerned about her presentation to go visit her boyfriend who’s on the verge of death in a post apocalyptic setting. Ruby’s neighbor, Mrs. Fintch asks for assistance and that she requires medicine due to the fact that she was infected and was currently bleeding at a rapid state. Ruby suggests her mom to ignore her and just forget she’s there, to save the medicine for people who really matter like herself. Her mom gives Ruby a foul look and continues to give Mrs. Fintch the medicine, Ruby says she’s wasting her time, but her mom continues to aid the poor old lady who is in desperate need. After people read

This time when she comes back she is saves Rufus’s room from burning down. Dana ask Rufus a series of question such as why she is here, what year it is, and why did he try to burn down his house. Rufus replies saying that he is upset that his father has sold a horse that he wanted. Dana also discovers that she is traveling back in time to save Rufus which is her great grandfather. She understands that she needs to keep him alive in order for her to live. When Dana realize what time period she is in she is frighten because it is during slavery. At this point Dana understands that she has gone back into time to experience the horrors of slavery and prejudice first hand. Dana tells Rufus that she needs to get out of his room because his father could come in his room at any moment. So, Rufus tells Dana of a little girl named Alice that lives not far from his house her mother and her are free blacks. When Dana sees them she believes that they are her ancestors. While at Alice’s house she sees physical abuse and she also endures the abuse herself. As Dana fights for her life she faints back into the present. When Dana is back at home in the present time she understands that when Rufus is in trouble and she is called to his side and when she wants to return to the present time she put her own life in jeopardy.

I: Throughout Kindred by Octavia Butler, the society surrounding Dana changes her character and personality so that she is more of a conformist, suggesting that it is not possible to retain one’s pure individuality when immersed in a different culture or society.

Finally, we are brought back to that scene in the hospital that the novel opened with, the reader sees that when Dana is “thrown” back into the 1900’s after killing the very person she was sent to protect, she appears with her arm inside, and

Ruby was happy she got to visit with them and she wanted to become friends the children didn’t want to be friends with her and she began to understand why. Ruby’s second year at school everything had changed, she wasn’t getting walked to school by the marshals, Mrs.Henry moved to Boston with her husband, school was full of children and no one ever talked about the past. Everyone wanted to put it all behind. During high school, she went to Francis T. Nicholls high school. She learned about tourism in Kansas City then she got married to a man named Malcolm Hall and had four children later in the year her brother Malcolm Bridges died of a

First, Ruby was ostracized by white people, including her teachers and her peers. It´s was one elderly lady in the crowd with a doll in a box saying she gone kill her. Next, her teacher talks bad about her give her low test scored when she really made high on her test. Last, the other white parent came and got their kids from school. All in all, Ruby enjoyed her ostracized by showing she was

Have you ever procrastinated on something and avoided confrontation with a problem that you did not want to face? In sketches by Eric Walters a teenage runaway girl named Dana, faces the harsh conditions of living on the street in downtown Toronto. Accompanied by her two friends, Brent and Ashley, Dana learns to adapt to the ways of street life and is forced to recognize her life prior to these events in order to learn to succumb to these feelings and express them through her art. Dana is a youthful soul who cares about others even when she’s at her worst, an example of this is when Dana finds a stray cat while she is spray painting a wall and decides to give it one of her chicken nuggets she had been saving in her pocket “You’re even more

Dana makes a total of six trips to the past. After her second trip, she realizes this phenomenon occurs only when her grandfather, Rufus, falls into a fatal situation. Each time Dana jumps, she leaves behind her home and more importantly her husband, excluding her third trip when he travels along with her. The idea of home plays a significant role in her transformation. Home is more than just a structural or tangible place. Home is more of an preconceived notion where one is surrounded by a familiar culture or a place where one feels safe. Dana and Kevin had only recently moved into their new home in California before her trips begin. In the present time, her travel through time begins on June 9th and concludes on July 4th. She has only lived in her house in her time for a little over a month,

One task she would constantly do is she would clean her family's houses. Giovanna was caring and loving to everyone and soon became a midwife. Giovanna's brother, Lorenzo, went to America because he wanted to help his family financially but knew he couldn't help them in Italy so he decided to leave and send money to them from America. Then Nunzio soon decided that it was best for him and Giovanna to immigrate to America. Giovanna was very upset with this news because she was scared for him, she really wanted him to stay with her and for them to create a family. Once in New York, Nunzio sees all the beautiful buildings and only has one person he wished was there to see them with him; Giovanna. With the help from his brother-in-law, Nunzio finds work. Nunzio learned new skills and met many interesting people at work. Everything was going great for Nunzio in America until tragedy struck. While working at Brooklyn Union Gas Company, Nunzio knew there was a way in which the steel heave had to be lowered but his boss didn't listen to him. Once Nunzio went under the steel heave he knew that it

Around a few months ago, my parents became separated, and my dad had been bunking in our basement; as he had nowhere to go. Both he and my mom were emotionally drained, and he needed liberation from the confinement of our basement, so he decided to visit our property in New Mexico for awhile. None of us knew when he would return. I had been to New Mexico one time previously, and it didn’t take me much time at all to become completely infatuated with it. Furthermore, when I discovered he would be going, I knew it was my duty to talk my Mom into. However, ticket prices were astronomical, and we weren’t in the best place financially, as the divorce was an expensive process. Getting the stamp of approval wasn’t going to be easily done.

When Page got home that night she spoke of Racine the way Racine had instructed her too with only her father. Immediately – Racine became protective of her sister recognizing immediately – she was the only thing she had left in this life now that ICE was gone. With Juice willing to pick up the pieces, Robert Bentley was forever concentrated in jail he was disintegrated by levels of importance in her life– her mother was dead and her sister’s care was ambiguous at best. Racine marked Dana Ann as a true culprit and she wanted to tell her how badly she had hurt

When you saw a woman or man collapsed on street, what will you do? As a person who has had the experience, Dana said what she experienced. She was collapsed on upstairs above a shop one day, and she tried her best to move the body to the street in order to let people find her, because she needed to go hospital on time and she couldn’t do it herself. At that time, she felt dying and was longing for the arrival of ambulance. When she reached the street, she found that even many people found her, but no one came to help. People just walked on their way and pretended to not find Dana. Although finally a good person came out and helped Dana, Dana felt very sorrowful to the most people who walked on by.

She never gave in to them so as the years went on high school sometimes was difficult. It was hard to fit in sometimes for her and all Ruby ever wanted was to be accepted by her peers. As page 618 of our book states, “Unlike

It is also assumed that the act of telling a story can provide insight into past, present and future events (Espinoza, 1997). By going through this process, individuals can find the importance of certain events and assign roles to people who are a part of their story. This act can allow a client to find new meaning and understanding to their reality (Espinoza, 1997). Not only is a