Kindred Chapter Summaries

Mr. Gawande starts his literature on washing hands. He introduces two friends a microbiologist and an infectious disease specialist. Both work hard and diligently against the spread of diseases just like Semmelweis who is mentioned in the chapter. Something I learned, that not many realize, is that each year two million people acquire an infection while they are in the hospital. Mainly because the clinicians only wash their hands one-third to one-half as many times as they should. Semmelweis, mentioned earlier, concluded in 1847 that doctors themselves were to blame for childbed fever, which was the leading cause of

Sampson, George, and Rameck were three kids from the ghetto of Newark, New Jersey. They came from low-income families, and grew up without father figures. All three of them always did well in school, but others around them made a lot of bad choices. This caused many events that them caused them to go to jail. When they met each other in University High School, the three doctors decided to promise to each other that they would all go to college and become doctors. After they made the pact, there were a few problems, but these incidents never stopped them from pursuing their dream of becoming doctors. Today, Dr. Hunt is a Board certified internist at University Medical Center at Princeton

Kevin and Dana first conflict when Dana returns to 1976 for the first time. Kevin is in disbelief about where Dana went, as he suggests what she experienced was “a dream” (17). He says this despite the fact that he saw Dana disappear and reappear, something out of the ordinary. His perspective is different from Dana’s, meaning what he sees isn’t always what actually happens. Dana goes back in time, while Kevin saw Dana "vanish and reappear" (16). Despite not knowing what Dana experienced, he still believes his point of view is a fact. Kevin insists Dana’s experience was a “dream,” and refers to his perspective as “facts” (16). By doing so, he asserts his perspective, the white male perspective, is objective and truthful, while Dana’s is illegitimate. Kevin's view is similar to how the

The next morning Jones wakes up with a hangover combined with terrible images from his dream of a white and black boy fighting with knives and the black boy slowly losing with each additional stab wound. Looking back Jones thinks of his place in America where he is a black man but all he wants is to be seen as just a man. When arriving to work Jones has decided to quit only to find the manager talking to every white boy that enters, rather than him. While on break he tries to get ahold of alice to discuss things only to find that she is out. Then he decides to go looking for Madge who is complaining to Don about bad gear from a black guy. Don brings up her date from the previous night prompting her to storm off. Jones again tries to find Alice

In this chapter we start seeing a flow threw the book Etta Mae is getting back from another one of her trips and is coming to her home which she shares with her good friend Mattie Michaels. As she arrives in a new car , with a new outfit and carrying records. This chapter the author , Gloria Naylor adds in song lyrics to give us the reader some additional information on the evens happing . “I love my man I’m a liar if I say I don’tI love my man I’m a liar if I say I don’t But I’ll quit my man I’m a liar if I say I won’t I’ve been your slave, baby Ever since I’ve been your babe I’ve been your slave Ever since I’ve been your babe But before I’ll be your dogI’ll see you in your grave My man wouldn’t give me no breakfast Wouldn’t give me no dinner Squawked about me supper then he put me outdoors Had the nerve to lay a matchbox on my clothes I didn’t have so many But I had a long, long way to go”

She opens the door to her childhood, beginning with when she was 3 years old and boiling her own hot dog by standing on top of the chair to reach the stovetop. While doing that, her pink dress catches on the fire because of which gets her horribly burned. She spends a few days in the hospitals and enjoys it too, because she is getting food on time and is not left starving. One day her dad shows up and they run off out of the hospital without paying the bills of her treatment. That night her family leaves the town and move to another place, taking as much stuff as possible with them. Most of her childhood memories involve her whole family- mom, dad, Jeanette, Lori, Brian, and later on Maureen -moving from one desert towns to another, settling in as long as her dad can hold the job. This happened more frequently due to the dad’s alcoholism coupled with his paranoia about the organized society and the state. One of the towns they stayed in was Battle Mountain, Nevada, where they spend a few months. Jeanette and her brother Brian spent many hours exploring the desert and collecting rocks. Even their mother got a job as a teacher and

This book is about a girl named Maria who is helping her mother cook at Christmastime, She is helping her make Tamales. Maria felt so grown up while she was helping her mother, When she walks away for a minute, Maria decides she wants to try on her mother’s wedding ring that she had laying on the table. She puts it on her thumb, and when her mother returns, she quickly begins to help once again. Once family arrived at their house, Maria was playing with her cousins Dolores, Teresa, and Danny. She looked down at her thumb where she had recently put the ring, and realized that it wasn't there. Maria told her cousins what had happened, and they all went down to the tamales. There were so many of them, but she knew that the ring had to be

were on a ship and a man brings in a black woman, who was a slave. The man

Bailey, the son of the character known as the Grandmother, decides to go to Florida anyway. Along their way to Florida with Bailey’s wife, the baby, and the two disobedient children; June Starr and John Wesley, the Grandmother is characterized as a senile, racist woman of bad judgment. This can be seen when along the ride she sees an African-American young boy and states, “Oh look at the cute little pickaninny!...Little niggers in the country don’t have things like we do. “ (O’Connor 12). The climax of the story occurs as the family leaves Red Sammy’s Famous Barbecue and gets in a car accident with the Misfit himself. It is then safe to say that the assumption of the senile Grandmother is accurate due to the thought that runs through her mind, “A horrible thought came to her…the house that she had remembered so vividly was not in Georgia, but Tennessee,” (19). The Grandmother’s forgetfulness is in turn the direct cause of the accident and run-in with the Misfit.

In 1863, previously Ticey, Jane meets a confederate soldier named Mr. Brown and changes her name. This is significant because it is the first time Jane was treated with respect and it symbolizes the first sign of improvement for slaves in America. Also in this year, a group of former slaves, including Jane, leave their plantation and journey northward. Not long after they leave, there is a massacre killing many, along with the group’s leader, “Big Laura”. The only two survivors, Jane and Laura’s child Ned continue in hopes of reaching Ohio, but end up staying on another plantation in Louisiana as indentured servants for Mr. Bone .

Nola Mae Harper has returned home to Cays Mill, GA to help manage the family peach farm while her parents are on a dream cruise for their 50th wedding anniversary. She is arriving just as the final touches are being made for the Bon Voyage for her parents. Ida Jean, Nola Mae's sister, has outdone herself with a well received party. The next morning Nola Mae goes out to where the party was to begin cleaning up the area, as she is walking through the field she begins to notice that

This family was messed up and it all started with the grandmas second husband. He was a child molester and because of that ruined the children’s life. Mentally, physical and emotionally he scared these children. For example, mentally Jim thought it would be okay to ask his half sister to move in and basically become his wife.

1. Chapter 1 Day In the beginning chapters it explains how the story takes place in futuristic Los Angeles where the USA has separated into 2 sections the Republic and The Colonies. Day is the most wanted criminal in the Republic at the age of 15, he and his friend Tess live on the streets constantly checking on Days family to see if the plague has infected them, ( There is a plague sweeping through the cities which causes bleeding irises and inflated bubos.) they all believe he is dead.

During WWll THe efforts to make both Japanese-American internees and American POWs in Japan invisible is that they tried to take away the only thing they had left, dignity. They suffered many losses, such as loss of family and homes. The people that suffered the most were Japanese Americans and POW’s because they were stripped of their dignity. Dignity is self worth and self respect, without dignity you become invisible. Two things that leads to invisibility are dehumanization and isolation.

Jimmy was on a fishing boat with Josh, who is the uncle of his girlfriend Karaoke, when they both disappear