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Summary 1: "Prologue," "The River,"and "The Fire."
From the start we learn that Dana, the protagonist has lost her arm in an accident on her last trip home. We later learn these trips are actually Dana traveling back in time and place, from the 1970’s Los Angeles to the Baltimore Maryland area in the 1800’s during the era of slavery. It seems these trips are triggered when Rufus’, Dana’s ancestor, life is in danger, and can only return when Dana’s life is in grave danger. In her first trip, Dana save Rufus when he is drowning in a river, and returns when Rufus’ father is pointing a gun in her face. Her second trip she helps Rufus hide evidence of him trying to burn down his father’s house. This trip lasted longer and not yet knowing how to return she asks Rufus for help. Rufus tells her to go to Alice, his friend and Dana’s ancestor, and her mother for help. There she witnesses Alice’s father, a slave, being beaten and rounded up by patrollers. After Dana asks Alice’s mother for help and she agrees. However things do not go as planned and take a horrible turn for Dana as a patroller had return. He had planned to sell Dana into slavery so Dana runs but the patroller catches up to her and tries to rape her. Dana fights back and is able to knock him out, this is when she is able to come back home. After her second trip there and back, Dana and her husband Kevin try to understand the best they possible can what is happening to her, and try to prepare Dana the best they can for her next trip.

Summary 2: "The Fall."
The Chapter starts off in the past with how Dana and Kevin meet. Then it comes back to the present briefly as Dana feels sick and is being transported back to the 1800's but this time however, Kevin hugs her and is transported back in time with her. There they find Nigel and Rufus and he has fallen from a tree and broke his leg. Nigel runs back to the house to get help for Rufus. Tom Weylin arrives with Luke on a wagon to bring Rufus home,. Dana stays with Rufus for a little while but Rufus's mother ,Margaret, sends her away. Dana meets Carrie a mute slave who takes her to the cookhouse where she meets Sarah, the cook. After eating she meets up with Kevin to get there stories straight since Kevin has accepted the job to teach Rufus. Dana works around the house, constantly harassed by Miss Margaret. Dana then gets caught reading to Rufus by Mr. Weylin and is offered Kevins job if Mr. Weylin bought her. Dana is then allowed to read to Rufus but gets caught reading in the library by Mr. Weylin who told her to never do it again. Almost immediately after Nigel asks Dana to teach him and she accepts. Kevin warns Dana to be careful, however during the middle of a lesson with Nigel, Mr. Weylin walks in and sees Dana holding a book. He yells at her,throws the book down, and greabs her and drags her outside. While this is happening Dana tells Nigel to get Kevin. Outside Mr. Weylin throws Dana down and begins to whip her. Dana begins to get sick and sees Kevin running towards her but she then passes out.

Summary 3: "The Fight."
The chapter starts with the telling of how Dana and Kevin got married, in spite of the fact that both their families did not approve of it. Then we find Dana is back in the present without Kevin. She spends eight days in the present before going back. When Dana goes back she finds Rufus in a fight,with a slave named Issac, and losing badly. Dana finds out that Issac is Alice's husband and Rufus had tried to rape her, which led to the fight. Dana convinces Issac to stop and he and Alice go on the run to freedom. Dana then aids Rufus the best she could and persuades him to lie about being beaten by a slave and say it was a group of white men then goes back to the plantation for help bringing him home. While taking care of Rufus back on the plantation Dana convinces Rufus to write to Kevin to inform him that Dana had returned. After four days of freedom Issac and Alice where caught, then brutally beaten for running. Alice was now a slave of Rufus, but was barley alive. When he brought her home, he gave Dana the responsibility to take care of Alice until she was better. Dana took care of Alice until she regained her memory, and the was ordered by Rufus to make her go to him. Alice initially refused but changed her mine, thinking about what would happen if she didn't. It is because of this that Alice finds Dana's letters to Kevin and shows them to her, which leads Dana to try to run away. Dana left at night, but was caught the next morning by Rufus and Mr. Weylin. Dana was beaten and taken back to the plantation where she was whipped by Mr. weylin. After a couple of days Dana finds out that Mr.Weylin had wrote to Kevin after finding out that Rufus promised but had not. The next day is when Kevin arrives and is reunited with Dana, and try to leave to go up north. However Rufus catches them leaving and does not want Dana to go, and threatens to shoot them with his rifle. It is here where Dana begins to fell dizzy and goes back to her time.

Summary 4: "The Storm," "The Rope," and "Epilogue."
We find out that Dana and Kevin have both returned safely to their time. But their time together was short lived as Dana is sent back, where she finds Rufus face down in a puddle. Dana saves him but it is just the start as Rufus would get sick, which we later find out is Dengue fever. Dana takes care of Rufus and finds out that he and Alice have a baby, Joe. After days Rufus is better, but his father, Mr Weylin has gotten sick. Dana tries to save his life but it is too late. Rufus believing Dana let him die orders her to the fields where she is worked hard to the point she collapses. After this Rufus brings her back into the house to take care of his mother, who was returning following Mr. Weylins death. Alice gives birth to Hagar, Dana's ancestor, and tells Dana she plans to run away again with the children since she believes Rufus will not keep his word and free their children. Dana planned to stay until Alice left, but her plans were cut short when she found out Rufus had sold a slave named Sam out of jealousy for talking to Dana. When Dana pleaded with him to stop the sale, he hit her, then Dana goes up to the attic with a bucket of warm water and cuts her wrists. Dana goes back to her time and spends fifteen days there before going back. When she goes back she finds out that Alice had hung herself after Rufus had took away her children after she had ran away, thinking they were sold off when they were actually at Rufus's aunts house. Days after Alice's Rufus attempts to rape Dana, but she fights back and stabs him repeatedly with a knife. As this is happening Dana begins to fell sick but Rufus is still laying on her arm, so when she returns to the present her arm is joined with the wall. After Dana and Kevin fly to Maryland in search for some answers as to what happen, but never really get the full picture.

Butler's Biography Assignment
a)The lead section should include how many books she has written, and where she lived

b)I think the section Early life and education should be renamed to her Life Story

c)There are many aspects of her life that are missing, including the awards Butler received

d)The wiki article has more information about Butler's books instead of Butler's life

e)I think the language is neutral and doesn't take sides

f) References 1, 13, and 14 are repeated from the Beacon Press and should be combined

g) "The Book of Martha" and "Amnesty" are dead links and should be removed

h) The two links I mentioned in part g are completely gone