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Summary Prologue The Fire The Falls In the prologue, we are introduced to the main character Dana and her presumed husband Kevin. She is in the hospital because her arm got chopped off. It seems to turn into a police investigation and that police suspect Kevin hurt her because Dana and Kevin are both telling stories that sound like lies and that it was Dana that injured herself.

In The Fire, it seems as if it is a dystopian society because even though the date is 1976 there is still things of the past present-mainly slavery and she lives on a plantation. She saves her apparent master's son Rufus from drowning and gets in trouble for doing so and is accused of trying to kill him. She continues having dizzy spells and its as if she's back in slavery times and is not being treated well. Throughout this whole chapter, she's mainly speaking to Rufus.

In The Fall, it is basically a continuation of The Fire but in this part she asks Rufus to help her escape from her master's and go to her cousin's house but while she is escaping, she thinks she sees white patrolmen on duty and gets worried that she will be found and brought back to her master's and get in trouble.

SUMMARY THE FALL In The Fall, Dana has another one of her dizzy spells but this time, Kevin holds her as she has one and they both travel back in time to the Weylin Plantation. One of the pain topics in this chapter is how she is treated by her masters and the conditions being an African-American during this time period. It shows how she must adjust to being treated this way since she obviously isn't from the 1860s. She is a house slave so she does chores inside the house and continues to somewhat bond with Rufus. Since Kevin is white and she is black, their treatment on this plantation is different and one of the main topics from this chapter is slaves being educated. The Weylins began to think Dana was educated and didn't like it at all, especially when he finds out she is secretly reading and teaching Rufus as well. At the end of the chapter, she gets her first beating from Tom Weylin because he caught her reading.

Butler's Biography Assignment
The lead section is understandable and talks about Octavia's basic info like birth date etc. The article's structure is clear and organized and easy to read. Nothing is really missing when talking about her life except they never mentioned if she had a family of her own. All the sections are balanced except that more should be talked about her career and awards, which are the most important aspects of her life. All of these claims seem pretty well sourced.These references are definitely reliable and were used in the main article as well. I think the obituaries can be combined into one footnote though. Some external links can be deleted such as the link to the University of Minnesota because the page isn't even linked to Octavia Butler and other websites just mention Octavia and the award she won, which isn't enough to count as an External Link, in my opinion. In general, they were organized well. There actually was a few broken links such as the scifi.com and the wab.org one.

Octavia Butler Article Editing
The one main thing that should be changed is the external links page. External links may not seem important but they are because when college students have to write papers on her life, they'll probably go to her page and look at external links for sources and if the sources aren't good, are irrelevant, confusing to navigate, or are invalid, this section is pointless. The only sources that should be able to stay in this section are from reliable sources such as PBS.org. The links that should be removed are: http://voices.cla.umn.edu/, www.scifi.com/scifiction/originals/originals_archive/butler2/, www.scifi.com/scifiction/originals/originals_archive/butler/, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1964371, and http://octaviabutler.net/. For the http://voices.cla.umn.edu/narticle, we removed it and included the correct link to this general website which was Octavia Estelle Butler; Voices From the Gaps;University of Minnesota.

Summary 3: The Fight
In this chapter, Dana and Kevin are talking about marriage and they discuss how different their families views are on them getting married. Dana goes back to present day 1976 while Kevin is still stuck in Antebellum times and we find out he's in Maine. Dana has another one of her dizzy spells and returns to the Weylin plantation. She always goes back in time when Rufus is in danger and this time, he is being beat up by Alice's husband since Rufus raped her. We later find out that he really does love her, despite everything he did. Dana wants to try and help Alice and her husband Isaac escape while they have a chance but they do end up getting caught. This chapter talks a lot about the other slaves as well. Rufus is about 18-19 years old and is turning out to be just like his dad but his charm hides it more. Dana wanted to send a letter to Kevin in Maine so she writes one and Rufus claims he sent it out. Out of all he slaves, Rufus treats Dana the best. Weylin whips Dana and Kevin returns and wants to get revenge on him.

Summary 4: The Storm, The Rope, The Epilogue
In The Storm, Kevin and Dana are in 1976 temporarily but are then thrown back into the Weylin's plantation where Dana finds Rufus very drunk and saves him again. Tom Weylin said that Dana is allowed to stay there since she's always saving his son. Alice has had 3 kids with Rufus since Dana's been gone and everyone's mean to Alice because of it. Dana also starts caring after the slaves children. Suddenly, Tom has a heart attack and dies which leaves Rufus furious so he beats her horribly Then, Sam asks Dana to teach his kids but then they're sold and after an argument with Rufus, she slits her wrists. In The Rope and The Epilogue: Kevin and Dana go back again to 1976 but are quickly thrust back when Rufus is seen trying to kill himself. Dana gets scared that if Rufus dies she can't get back home. Shortly thereafter, Alice hanged herself after she believed Rufus sold their kids, which ended up being a joke he made. Everyone is depressed. The day after Alice's funeral, Rufus frees his kids. Kevin and Dana go back to Maryland in present day time. The Weylin house isn't there anymore and they find an article telling of the sale of the Weylin estate, as well as the slaves, after Rufus died in a fire. Dana thinks Nigel set the fire to cover up her murdering Rufus. Kevin and Dana can’t find out what happened to Hagar and Joe, though Dana knows that Hagar probably lived long enough to be freed by the amendment to the Constitution. She can find no record of Nigel and Carrie’s sale of her.