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Butler Biography Editing
a)The language is clear but it lacks in information. For example It doesn't explain where she was born in the United States. Only describes her as an American author. I also believed that it doesn't explain why Butler was well know for. Where she died? and what was the cause? Maybe one or two books that where vital.

b) c)There are certain awards and accomplishments that are missing i)2012Solstice Award(> SFWA Grand Master Award.) ii) Not every single work is recorded.Pacer87 (talk) 20:45, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

The Prologue
Dana had lost an arm in her last trip. And she was hospitalized and Kevin was being blame for the incident. With the help of Dana, Kevin was release. The authority do not have enough evidences or the co-operation to detained Kevin. Dana demands to see Kevin, in their conversation she ask Kevin what had happened and explain that Dana had screamed out the no where, and Kevin finds Dana stuck in the wall with her arm penetrated in it. Dana wonders what he had told the police, what truth and how much of it sounded relevant, but Kevin great used of word would show him as ignorant and help him get release.Pacer87 (talk) 19:20, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

The River
In the first chapter, “The River” Dana experiences something she cannot understand.It is was June 1976 and it was her 26th birthday. She travels back in time, back to 1815 in a matter of seconds. She becomes dizzy and “sick” before being drawn to the past, before finding herself in a river where a small kid is drowning. When Dana sees him she hurries to help him and get him out of the river. After she finally takes the kid out and she decides to do a mouth to mouth to resurrect the kid. Seconds later, the mother (Margaret) of the kid starts beating up Dana because she thinks she’s hurting her son. When the kid is finally breathing and Dana looks up she finds a man standing in front of her with a rifle to her face. Dana is scared of dying, experiencing true fear for the first time. Suddenly, she disappears and comes back home and when she does she’s all wet and covered in mud. The experiences is so real that Dana has no idea who to deal with it, nor Kevin who is their to witness the whole vanishing. It is a concept that they don't know how they will ever deal with.Pacer87 (talk) 19:43, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

The Fight
In the chapter The Fight we see Donna coming back to save Rufe's life again. This time he is involved in fight with Issac, who is the husband of Alice the women he has strong feelings for. He convinces Issac to spare his life after trying to rape Alice. Dona and Rufus come to a mutual agreement to let them escape and not tell on Issac, in exchange to let Rufus live. Rufus and Dona realize they need each other so make a pack to stay loyal to each other, but only to later find out that Rufus is keeping Dona from reuniting with her husband Kevin who has left the house to go North. In this chapter we notice that Rufus surfers from a psychological twisted detachment. Dona is warned that Rufus is worst then his father and is turning into a worst slave owner. Using the same tactics to keep control over the slaves. In one his controlling game he uses Dona to help Rufus to get to Alice to sleep with him. Dona not having any choice and to spare Alice from a beating help him with his plan. In the end of the chapter despite Rufus fail attempt to send a letter Dona had written to Kevin to let him know she is back. Kevin arrives to the house thanks to Tom. Who despite being the fear slave owner is a man of his worth and is the only valuable trait Rufus admires form his dad. Even with Kevin in the scene Rufus tries to stop Dona from leaving him by pointing a riffle at Kevin and trying to convince them to stay and leave Dona with him.Pacer87 (talk) 06:20, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

The Storm
In the beginning of chapter The Storm we see Dana traveling back to her actual time with Kevin. They had transfer just in time to dodge the gun shot that would could have probably killed Dana and Kevin. With great relieve they try to continue their everyday life as normal, but only to come in conclusion that Kevin can't shake off the five years he has been stuck in. He has great a resentment toward Dana for putting him up to such a bizarre experiences. Dana tries to solve and get some answer to calm Kevin down but to no success she decide to leave Kevin deal with it on his own. Time heals all wounds. In fear of being transfer back in time Dana prepares herself, resupplying for the next trip back. No later that same night she is brought back to save Rufus, who is nearly drowning face down in a mud puddle on a rainy day. In Dana's return she realizes that everyone is much older, especially Tom who is now an older man walking with his cane. As usual Tom tries to put Dana down and ask her to save his son life.(Which is all Dana is good for in Tom's eyes) In the time she is there Tom gets a heart attack in which he dies of and Rufus with all the pain blames Dana for not being able to help his father. In punishment he sends Dana to the field, to work as a field worker in which she almost dies. In her near minutes of death Rufus saves her and bring her back to the house and ask for forgiveness, for taking his anger on her. During her return to the house she is in charge of taking care of a change an elder Margaret. During this time period Dana and Rufus work together in sorting out his fathers debts. Rufus grows a love for his son Joe and decides to nurture him. Dana teaches Joe to read who is bond of the idea. In this time period Rufus decides to free his children, but doesn't tell Alice only Dana. At the same moment Alice decides to run, as she believes it is her only way out. Alice's fears that her children will grow to be slaves and feel that she might as well get out while she still can. Dana is stuck in a conflict and fears that not only is Alice is in danger but is putting the life of her children Joe and new born baby Hagar at risk. Dana decides to tell Alice about the freedom of her children but doesn't believe Dana, to make her a believer she would have to see the actual documents herself. On day Rufus decides to sell Sam, a slave that has approach Dana in two occasion, and tries to interfered with the transaction as she believes Rufus is jealous because Sam had an interest in her. In her efforts to prevent the selling of Sam, Rufus hits Dana for the first time, breaking up the agreement they had formed. In her anger and disappointment with Rufus she cuts her wrist to put an end to her nightmare.Pacer87 (talk) 23:46, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

The Rope
In the chapter The Rope we see Dana coming back to her own time. The cuts in her wrist have been taken care by Lou George, Kevin's doctor friend. In her trip back she spends three weeks with Kevin, in which Kevin reveals his problem with Dana. The factor why he has been so mad at Dana, his jealousy over Rufus and the way he look at Dana. Kevin saw threw Rufus and he knew that his need for Dana was more then a friendship. He also feared that Rufus had rape Dana in her last visit, and Dana had kept it to her herself. Kevin feels that a rape would be enough to drive Dana to cut her wrist. Dana refuses that anything had happened and put Kevin at ease. In her time with Kevin, Dana can't help but be aware of her next time Rufus would call her back, making her carry her denim back with her at all time, an idea that drives Kevin insane. She is surely called back on the 4th of July, to find that Alice has committed suicide. Dana is worried that Rufus has done the crime but is a sure that he had nothing to do with it. Only three months have pass by since she left and Rufus is sad to know he is now truly alone. Rufus had Alice children taken away to put fear in her for running away but the same idea had push her to kill herself. Rufus guilt pushes him to find some way of relieve. Dana asks Rufus to bring back his children from Maryland and put his children freedom in paper, as is the least he can do to make things right. While Rufus is at his weakest moment Dana tries to convince Rufus to free more slaves in his will. Rufus believes the idea is dangerous cause if if at one point the news were to get out there, he would be at danger of getting murder just to speed up their freedom. In his conversation with Dana, Rufus confess he has had a constant nightmare of Dana leaving him to die off and had trust issues. His fear of being left alone and the death of Alice would drive Rufus to commit a stupid act. Dana would be the only one left in Rufus life that he cared for. Out of desperation and with nothing else to loose he would go on and try to rape Dana, an idea that she would not accept. In her efforts to prevent from being rape she stabs Rufus twice. Rufus manages to punch Dana in the face and never lets go of Dana arm. During the altercation Dana is transported back to her time. But this time not as a whole. For the grip of Rufus had teared Dana's arm off.Pacer87 (talk) 18:12, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Epilogue
The Epilogue is all about going back to Maryland in the present time. As soon as Dana's arm is heal they go back to look for answer. As they arrive they see a plantation that has been completely modernize and up to date, a town with its Burger King, Holiday's Inn and Texaco. A community full of white and black people as a community, a vision that was hard for Dana to believe. Questioning if this was the same land that The Welyin's had own and where slavery had occur. Most of what was in the past had vanish few house still stood. but most importantly the house in which Rufus had live was gone. It had turn into a corn field, nothing remain of the old house and Dana questioned why? In her search for answer she talks to the former farmers of the land but they gave nothing of information. They decide to head to the Historical Museum to look for answer. In their search they find that the house was burned down. Dana believes that Nigel must have burned the house to cover for her. In the event of the fire he manages to save Margaret. But in the killing of Rufus she finds that all the slave are sold off. What she had feared had actually happened, but in the list of the slave sold she see that Nigel, Carrie, Joe and Hagar are the few are save from being sold. But the rest including the children of Nigel and Sarah are sold off, the consequences that hurt Dana. As Kevin reaches to consul Dana, he tells Dana that there is nothing else to do but to accept the facts. The reality is that they are alive and that their experiences is something that would be seen as sane to the rest of the world. A shared experiences that would be stuck with them now that Rufus was dead. Pacer87 (talk) 19:00, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Journal Entries
“The Fall”

Dana was believed to be trouble because she was educated knew more then she was supposed to know according to Tom. He feared that her knowledge would inspire other slave to fight back, to believe that they as well could be free. Catching her once reading to other slave. Dana threated Tom’s system, it threated his future, wealth and more important his power. He also believed that Dana would alternate Rufus way of seeing and treating slaves, putting his family future at risk. Dana in the eyes of Tom was a slave no matter where or what time she was from. To him she was under his roof, which made her a slave. This would put target on Dana being constantly watched. Tom made sure she follow the rules of his time and try to break Dana spirit. He wanted her on her knees, saturate the feeling of freedom from her and make sure she didn’t spread that sense to other fellow slaves. Not only did Tom find Dana threat his beliefs as a slave owner but also threated his manhood. Dana was modern woman who like to wear pants, a visual concept that was insulting to the eyes of men back in the mid 1900’s. Only man wore pants back then. So by her wearing pants in the house it question Tom’s masculinity. It is if she would challenge or try to size up to Tom, an idea that he wouldn’t ever tolerate. So Dana just brought a lot of problem to Weylin house. If there is anything that Tom Weylin felt for Dana is fear. Dana represented the opposite of what Tom believed and lived for. Tom whole life was based on being a slave owner. Dana disrupted the system, a system that Tom had control of. He knew that he couldn’t ever own Dana as slave, therefore never fully control her. Dana represented freedom, an ideal that threated not just Tom personally but his way of life. She represented a concept that would end his reign for power. The idea drove Tom into madness, giving him the fuel to make Dana as miserable, in what ever form possible. “The Fight”

In comparing Tom and Rufus Weylin we see two different types of characters, each holding different ideals in how to treat their slaves. In Tom we see the classical and traditional slave owner willing to do the necessary to keep its slave in control. On the contrary with Rufus, who seem to show have a soft side which are shown in his every move by the doubting and questioning of his every move. The influence of Dana clearly demonstrates Rufus is an improvement of his father Tom. Evidences that show that Dana is clearly alternating Rufus perspective are in the way he treats Alice. He tries to convince Alice to be with him, Rufus doesn’t just ask but begs Alice to be with him, an odd scenario to imagine, due to the fact that Alice was a slave, a slave that he could just rape. For Rufus a slave owner to ask a slave to be with him is out of context. Unlike Tom Weylin who would just rape his slave, in example Tess. Tom would just use his power and get what he wanted without caring about feelings. Rufus would have an inner conflict taking in consideration the feelings of Alice, in this example we see Dana having some influence in Rufus. We can also see a difference in treatment and managing of slave in both Tom and Rufus. Tom seems to not care about slave lives as long as it benefits him. He would do what it takes to keep control of his owning. The selling of Luke the over seer who was great at his job but would disobey the master, would be sold to demonstrate that no one was safe not even the over seer. In compare to Rufus who would treat Nigel differently, offering him a space and supplies for him to build himself a hut. He would use a different approach to keep his slave close to him. Having Rufus grow up with Nigel, would alter his view on his slave/friends. “The Storm, The Rope, Epilogue”

The amount of time Dana and Kevin are stranded in the past is key to the developing of their character; it changes their view in slavery. It could be said that their time stranded in the past is based on their race. I believe Butler leaves Kevin back in time for five years to break threw him, to make him open his eyes. Kevin being a white male is surely different from Dana who was a black woman. Both were viewed and treated differently, it is if Butler needed to hold Kevin in the past longer to balance the time Dana was there. What was nearly a year for Dana is equivalent to the five years for Kevin. It is also important to point out that Kevin was unaware and unconscious of the time he was in. It would have been difficult to open and alternate the view of Kevin in the same time. It was also vital to point that by leaving Kevin stuck and alone in the past was affecting in developing a new concept of what truly was slavery. Leaving Kevin Dana free (leaving him alone in the past) truly changes his experience, that of a white male in the mid 1900’s. The outcome of the stay affects the relationship in various ways, the connection between Kevin and Dana changes. It puts Kevin feeling guilty and conscious of Dana’s emotion. By the time they come back together, we see alteration in the atmosphere of the couple. Kevin is afraid of touching Dana because he feels he might hurt her. He is stuck with the mentality of the past, questioning his every move, in pre caution to avoid harming Dana in anyway, a mentality that he develops while helping fellow slaves in the past. Butler believed that such though would have only formed if Kevin would be stuck for the time planed. “Kindred”

The lost of the left arm of Dana is a way of addressing the elements that make up Dana. It is important to understand that Dana is an outcome of an act of rape. Her interaction with the past is an eye opening set of events. It reveals to her the ways she came about, she is faced with the dark historical facts of slavery. The symbolism behind the lost of the arms emphasizes the impact of experiences she went threw. Facing her ancestors and trying to live threw the life of an African American in the mid 1900’s. During every trip Dana is brought back with an emotional or physical scar. Every time making her feel much more aware of whom she is. The outcome of every trip is raise higher to show the impact the trip has taken on Dana. It is only fair and acceptable that the last trip would conclude in the lost of her arm. To show that no one could ever be the same after going threw such experiences. It is important to lay out that by leaving a part of her behind it help would her shape up her presences. It is if Butler needed a way to represent the amount energy Dana needed to keep her existences. It is key to point out that Dana looses her left arm and not her right to show the lost yet unimportant piece of her. It is said that the most important person always stands at your right side. The lost of her left arm represent Rufus as a key element of her existence. The lost of a useless yet notable body part is enough to represent the conclusion her of trips back to the past. Dana being left armless would be a constant reminder that her presence has a history. A violet and brutal past that took away many African American lives to achieve. A concept that shouldn’t be taken for granted and a idea that will be reminded every time she looks to her missing arm.Pacer87 (talk) 03:43, 7 April 2014 (UTC)