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Summary 1: “Prologue”, “The River” and “The Fire”
In the prologue they begin by introducing the main character Dana who is awakening disoriented in a hospital bed and realize she is missing an arm. At this time cops are trying to question her about how this happened and have falsely accused her husband Kevin of hurting her. She tries to explain to them he didn’t hurt her and is requesting to see him. When Kevin sees her he himself is asking her how did this happened and she can’t seemed to be able to respond to him. All he knows is that when he came in to their bedroom she was screaming hurt and brought her to the hospital. The prologue is a bit confusing but definitely interesting.

In “The River” Dana is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday and is when strange things start to happen. While unpacking in her new apartment she begins to feel dizzy and nauseous and all of the sudden collapses. As she finally regains consciousness she awakens to a boys that is drowning in the river pleading for help, she hurries into the river and carries him out. The boy is not conscious as she tries to give him mouth to mouth. A woman is hitting her an accusing her of killing her son. The boy regains conscious and the mother attends to her child while Dana is trying to figure out where she is, a man with a rifle approaches her demanding who she is while pointing the rifle at her head. Dana starts feeling dizzy again and nauseous and again collapse. When she gains conscious she appears back in her apartment soaked and muddy. Kevin who can’t understand what has just happened is baffled because she disappear before his eyes and re appear. Dana who is confused herself tries make sense of what had just occurred to her but just can’t seem to understand it. All she knows is that the little boy’s name is Rufus and she had save him and the feeling she got when she felt that rifle in her head and the point that it wasn’t a dream. It was so real.

In “The Fire”, Dana is trying to forget what had just occurred in that river and is still shaken up scared to death that it might happen again. And it did. She felt the same nauseous and dizzy feeling and collapse. This time she appeared in a bed, next to her was a boy who wasn’t looking at her but across the room to a fired he had just started in the draperies. Dana ran to the draperies and threw them out the window. At that point she was waiting to go back home now that the child was safe but it didn’t happen she didn’t feel the dizzy and nauseous feeling that had gotten her there and back home. So instead she asked the boy’s name and realized that he was the same little boy she had save from the river the difference was that he was like 3 years older. She asked him question and to her realization she couldn’t believe that she was in a whole other era. Back home in California it was 1976 but in here in Maryland it was only 1815 and Rufus Weylin could be one of her ancestors. She had travel back in time to the days of slavery.

Summary 2: “The Fall”
In “The Fall” we learned a little more about our characters Dana and Kevin and how they met. Kevin had been working in a factory in which he was a regular employee and she was an on call type of worker send by an agency if they needed extra personal. They had met when Dana was sent there for inventory. They were both writers stuck on this job until they were able get publish. Kevin had just gotten publish for a book he had written and had decided to leave the job that same week he met Dana. Kevin was interested in getting to know Dana that they kept in touch.

Dana then transcends the story to Kevin and her now. Although Kevin was still unsure of what had happened to Dana disappearance in those second, he had agree to go to the library to get some books on slavery and how those days were. When all of the sudden Dana started feeling nauseous and dizzy. Kevin had run to her holding her tight when it happened they had both travel back in time appearing in the woods. Dana Who believes that she is supposed to save Rufus every time he gets into danger realize that she is late and the damage was already done. Rufus had fallen from a tree and had broken his leg. Here we meet Nigel a slave boy who was accompanying Rufus at the time. Rufus who even though is pain assures Nigel that Dana was ok and sends him to get help and to inform his father. At this time Rufus starts questioning Kevin whether Dana belongs to him. This is when he realize Kevin is a white man.

Butler’s Biography
a)	The lead section in the article in Wikipedia is very clear and easy to understand. It was very descriptive when they began on how she started writing and what influenced her but I think they could’ve also put a little about the struggles and the rejection she got from her book Kindred and also when she finally got the advancement for the book of 5,000. b)	They could’ve added subsection into the early life and education. In early life they could’ve put how she began and the struggles she went through and later on education also put her achievements. c)	In the life aspect she took care of her mother until she died. In career a lot of the name of the book are missing, In Patternist series: Pattermaster (1976), Mind of my mind (1977), Survivor (1978), Wild Seed (1980) and Clays Arken (1984). Also some of her awards. d)	The sections are somewhat unorganized. They could’ve broken them down into smaller section and making it more detailed. e)	The language is neutral. f)	There are plenty of references but they also have repeated some of them. g)	The external link has been marked for clean up because it requires some footnote on some of the external links. h)	The book of Martha doesn’t display and amnesty either

Summary 3 "The Fight"
In the “Fight” Dana after being back home for 8 days without Kevin once again gets pulled back to Antebellum to help Rufus. This time he was getting beat up by a slave. Isaac who was Alice’s husband was beating up Rufus because he was raping Alice. Dana who ran to aid Rufus, stopped Isaac from killing him and advise them to run away. Dana then goes and gets help for Rufus. Dana cares for Rufus until his recovery. Dana finds out that Kevin is no longer in the plantation and has move. According to the last time she was there five years have passed by and Kevin had gotten tired of waiting for her. Although he kept sending letters to Rufus always checking up to see if Dana had returned. Rufus offers to send a letter to Kevin from Dana.Isaac and Alice get caught and Rufus goes to the town to get Alice and to send Dana's letter to Kevin.Isaac gets sold to a trader going to Mississippi and Rufus buys Alice for himself. Dana helps him nature Alice back to live and now Rufus wants to make Alice his lover. Alice who has no memory of what has happen than start getting her memory back and hates Rufus for everything that has happened to her husband Isaac. She refuses anything that has to do with Rufus. Rufus knows this and gets Dana to talk to Alice about accepting him and not fighting it. Since he was going to have her either with her wanting him or not. If she refuse she would get beaten and he didn't want that. She ends up giving in. Alice sleeps in his room and one day while she was cleaning she noticed some letters in his desk and goes back to Dana and shows her. Dana with disbelief realizes Rufus has been lying to her and has not send the letters to Kevin and she decides to run away in search for Kevin herself.Dana waits for everyone to fall asleep and leaves.As she keeps walking she hears a familiar voice then realizes that is Rufus and Tom Weylin. They were looking for her. They find her and Tom Weylin kicks her in the face making her loose two teeth. Dana rides back with Rufus and as soon as they get home they whipped her some more for running away. Rufus than question why she ran away and realizes that she knows he had been lying to her about sending the letters. He then hands her a letter from Kevin. Tom Weylin had figured the reason why she ran away and blamed Rufus for promising something he didn't do. So because Rufus had given his word and to Tom Weylin that was sacred, he wrote to Kevin himself letting him know Dana was back. Kevin was on his way to get back Dana and Rufus wasn't happy about that.Rufus explain to Dana he didn't send those letter because than she would leave and he didn't want her to leave. Tom and Rufus weren't home when Kevin arrived to pick up Dana. Dana ran got her stuff and left. Halfway down the road they encounter Rufus he couldn't believe that Dana was going to leave without saying goodbye to him.So he request for them to come back home with him because he is sure that his father might want to talk somethings out with Kevin. When they refuse to his request he points a gun at them and demands Kevin to pick Dana up and to follow him. Dana anger by this tells him off and now he is pointing the gun at her now feels as she pushed him to far she begins to fall and feels a heavy load on top of her than everything is dark.

"The Storm","The Rope" and "Epilogue"
In “The Storm” Dana unsure of how it happen, had returned back home to California bringing Kevin back with her. Dana notice that those five years that Kevin had spent in the past had change him. His appearance was much older he had a scar in the middle of his forehead and had quite an accent that reminded her of Rufus and Tom Weylin. Kevin was distance from Dana and had grown clueless to everything he once knew. This frustrated him. He couldn’t believe that while he was there for five years in reality he had only lost eight days. During this time Kevin had help slave escape and had taught people to read and write. Dana in the other hand had lost only hours of that day and had been away for only 2 months. Being back home for just a day, once again Dana is being pull back to the aid Rufus. This time she was alone an appeared in an outside area near the Weylin house. Rufus was lying face down in the mud with water pouring on him from the storm. It seem he was drunk. Dana got him help and brought him back to his house. Here Dana sees Tom Weylin and realizes six years has past by since she was last there. She tries explaining to him that only hours has passed by for her thinking that Rufus would had made him understand. Instead she angers him and he becomes aggressive and starts threatening her. Tom Weylin orders Dana to care for Rufus and sleep in his room until he got better and threatens to kill her if anything happens to him. Dana while caring for Rufus finds out that Alice has had three babies by him and two of them had die leaving her with one. Joe who was sick too looked like Rufus. Although Rufus was still weak he was feeling better and Dana got to sleep back in the attic. The next day Dana is called Tom Weylin was having a heart attack and there was nothing Dana can do to help him and he dies. Rufus blames Dana for his father’s death and punishes her by sending her to do field work. There Dana is being whipped for not doing the work as fast as the others that she collapses. She than believes she is back home as she is regaining conscious and realize she is still in the plantation and Rufus had come to get her. Dana was back serving in the house. Margaret Weylin had returned and Dana had been assign to her by Rufus to care for her since she was sick herself and very delicate. To Dana’s surprise Margaret Weylin was nicer than she last remembered her and sweeter. Margaret taught her how to sew and would only get upset at her when she didn’t get it right. The work was easier with Margret so Dana really didn’t mind. One day as she is exiting the house she sees two man and a woman being cuff by their neck, she couldn’t believe her eyes Rufus had just sold these people. Dana enraged by this screams at Rufus and ask him how could he. Rufus annoyed answer her by stating they are his property and besides this was arranged by his father before he died they had debt and that had to get done. He didn’t like it so the best he could think to do is for her to help him write letter to the debt collector to give him time. Dana agrees as long as he doesn’t do it again. Alice at this time is pregnant again and Dana hoping that this time it would be Hagar her ancestor. It was. Alice is upset that Rufus won’t free her kids and fears they would eventually get sold so she tells Dana she wants to run away if she can help. Dana agrees and hopes she is still around until she does. One day this guy approaches Dana asking if she can teach his sister and brother how to read. Dana remember seeing him in the Christmas party. Rufus had notice him too, staring at her and had made a comment that he would sell anyone who would be interested in her. So she quickly tried to get rid of him talking to her she didn’t want to cause problem for him. Three days later he was sold. Dana goes to Rufus and request not to do this so he hits her. Rufus has never hit her. Dana feels betray and can’t bear with what just happens so she goes to the attic and decides to cut her wrist.

In “The Rope” Dana uncertain of where she is has arrived back home in California. Kevin who is next to her when she awakens is worried about what had caused her to slit her wrist and starts questioning her. Dana explains to Kevin that Tom Weylin had passed and Rufus blamed her for his death and send her to the field as punishment for his father dying. Margaret Weylin had return to the plantation and required a lot of attention she had to personal servant and had to sleep in the floor. Hagar was finally born. Rufus had become his father selling slaves and she was against that. ask He had first sold Tess and other two and couldn’t believe it. The second time he sold a guy because he believed he was interested in her. When she try to stop Rufus from doing it because he was breaking a family apart he got upset and slapped her. Dana feeling betrayed did what she did. According to Kevin, Dana had been away for around three hours but in Dana’s reality she had spent eight months. So after been home for fifteen days, once again she travels back in time and finds out that Alice has hung herself. Apparently Alice had ran away with her kids and had been caught. So as a punishment Rufus ordered a beaten and sold her kids. This had drove Alice to kill herself. Dana questions Rufus about the kids to find out that he had just send them away to scare Alice. Dana uses this opportunity to guilt Rufus into making two certificate of freedom for his kids. He does it, and then tries to convince Dana in staying and raising the kids. When Dana refuses, he tries telling her how she is so much like Alice and tries to rape her. Dana than takes a knife and stabs him. Although Rufus is holding her tightly by her arm he manages to punch her. Soon Dana starts feeling sick it seems she is going back when she hears a voice is Nigel who walks in and sees what is occurring. Dana than starts feeling a strong pressure on her left arm. No pain at first just a weird feeling she can’t understand what it is and from one moment to another she is home. Dana arm is stuck in the wall with no way of getting it out.

In the “Epilogue” when Dana’s arm got better her and Kevin fly to Maryland to see what was left of the place she once knew. They looked through old newspaper where they find out that Rufus was killed in a fired and the slaves were later sold. They had a list of the name of slave that were sold and to the surprise Nigel and Carrie’s name weren’t there. Neither were Joe and Hagar who were Rufus kids.