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Butler's Biography Assignment
a) The lead section is too short and does not give enough information to engage the reader to read more about Butler.

b) There should be more about Butler's life in the section "Early Life". There should also be more about the works in the section "Career" on what Butler did in her life from when she first started to the last work she published.

c) There are sections that are missing such as Butler's family life, if she had children and a husband. This could go under a section made named "Personal Life". There is one part under the section of "Career" that can be placed under a sub-section, which is when the university created two workshops in honor of her. The death of Butler could be placed under it's own section. There could be more information about Butler's career on when she first started publishing her work or even creating her works to the last work she made. There could also be a section where you can see what themes she used in her works.

d) The sections are not really well-balanced, because some sections are too short on information (ex. "Early Life", "Career").

e) The language of the article contains neutral but valued statements. ("Interviews")

f) Not all of the sources do not seem reliable. There are repeated sources the person used in this page that could be merged. The sources seem to be documented properly.

g)These sources can be removed: Voices from the Gaps: Octavia Estelle Butler,Bibliography from Feminist Sci Fi Utopia,"The Book of Martha"[dead link] at Scifi.com,"Amnesty"[dead link] at Scifi.com.

h)There some broken links where if you would click on it the information is not there and/or the page cannot be opened.

Summary for Prologue, The River, and The Fire
Prologue starts out telling us who is the main character(Dana)is and how she is in the hospital. Her husband is in question on if it was domestic abuse since she had lost her arm. The River begins to tell us that before Dana lost her arm, Dana and her husband just recently moved in together and while unpacking boxes, she faints and is taken to a place where she sees a young boy drowning in the river. She saves him but the mother ends up beating her and the father points a shotgun to her face,causing her to faint again. The Fire explains that Dana can travel back in time to whenever the boy, Rufus, needs help. She learns Rufus is her ancestor and that the time she traveled back to was in 1815, before slaves were considered free.

Summary for The Fall
Dana retells on how she met Kevin. When she faints again, he holds onto her and is carried back into the past. They see that Rufus had fell out of a tree and they tell him how they are from the future. He agrees to play along that Kevin and Dana are from New York and that Kevin "owns" Dana. When Tom Weylin comes, Kevin explains that he is a writer from New York who bought Dana because of her education, letting Weylin hire him to teach Rufus. Dana worries if she'll faint and if Kevin will be around to go back with her. She also worries if this past will rub off on him while he is forced to pretend to be a slave owner.

Summary for The Fight
Dana explains further on her relationship with Kevin; her uncle wanted her to marry a black man, her aunt said her children will be lighter in complexion, while his sister, being married to a racist, tells him that she will never speak back to him if he marries her. She gets transported back to present time without Kevin. When she returns 8 days later, she learns he left for North. She saves Rufus from getting beaten to death by Alice's husband after he rapes her. They allow them to escape but are then captured back days later; Rufus buys Alice in town back and he tells Dana if they were born in her time he would've married Alice. Rufus tells Dana he has been sending her letters to Kevin and when she learns he has been lying she tries to run away. When Rufus catches her and brings her back. When Edwards tells Dana she must do the wash, she tells him she can't because her back still hurts from when they had whipped her before. He threatens to whip her again and Kevin comes back, furious hearing that they had whipped Dana. They begin to ride away from the farm when Rufus comes back from town and sees them, they tell him they are not staying and he holds a shotgun to them. Dana provokes him and he aims at her but Kevin falls on her last moment.

Summary for The Storm
Dana and Kevin arrive back to their present time. They speak about how they have adapted to the past and its ways. Dana feels faint again but this time arriving to the past without Kevin. She finds Rufus passed out and has Nigel carry him home where Nigel tells Dana he has a sickness. She figures it out to be malaria. She tells Nigel to put up netting around the bed and she attempts to nurse him back to health. Weylin has a heart attack and Dana was unable to revive him. Nigel tells Dana its hard to see his three children enslaved. Alice tells Dana that her first two children fell ill and the doctor bled them. Alice blames Rufus for their deaths. Rufus blames Dana for not saving his father but forgives her at the end. Margaret returns and has Dana clean, do laundry and even sleep next to her. Rufus asks Dana to write letters for him to the people his father owes money to. He offers her some paper to use as she pleases since he heard from Kevin that she is a writer and says he doesn't want to sell any more slaves. He says his father left debts, and he hopes Dana can forestall the sale of more slaves by writing persuasive letters to the people. Rufus comes home drunk one night and tells Alice and Dana that they are "only one woman" meaning that Alice he wants to sleep with and Dana he wants to talk to. Alice gives birth to a baby girl named Hagar, whom Dana is elated to hear about since this ensures her family line and the birth of herself. A slave named Sam flirts with Dana and asks her to teach his younger siblings to read and write. When Rufus hears he sells Sam. Dana tries to persuade him not to and he hits her. She disobeys him and get some water and goes to the attic to slit her wrists.

Summary for the Rope
Dana tells Kevin what has happened and asks what does he want her to do. He doesn't respond but it is implied that he wants her to kill Rufus. She is back in present time and is happy to be reunited with Kevin until one day he accuses her on wanting to go back and if Rufus raped her. He believes her on when she tells him she will not be treated as property. She returns to the past to see that Alice has hanged herself in the barn because she thought Rufus sold her two children, Hagar and Joe. But Rufus just sent the children to his aunt in Baltimore. Dana blames him for the death of Alice and tells him the least he could do is free his children. Dana sees the children calling Rufus "daddy" and not "master". Rufus tries to make Dana stay with him and makes a sexual remark which causes her to take a knife and run to the attic. There she stabs him twice and he lies limp on her arm, causing her to lose her arm in the past as she travels to the present time.

Summary for Epilogue
As soon as Dana got well, she and Kevin traveled to Maryland in the present time to see how the plantation would look today. The Weylin house is gone. They find a newspaper article that states the sale of the Weylin estate, including the slaves, after Rufus’s death in a fire. Dana figures that Nigel made a fire to cover up the murder of Rufus that she committed. They can't find a record of Hagar and Joe but see that Hagar lived long enough to became free when the amendment was placed in the Constitution, but they cannot find anything that has to do with the sale of Nigel and Carrie.