"The Fall"

April 4 2012


                                   

Today we have write an analysis about "The fall" from the book kindred by Octavia E. Butler. What I am suppose to do is to discuss different ways that Dana the main character of the book is dangerous to the way of life in the Weylin household.

 Weylin starts to act weird around Dana and Kevin, because he begins to notice that Dana is well educated. He doesn’t like educated blacks, because he is so uneducated himself, so he decides to prevent Kevin that it was dangerous to keep an educated slave and that he should sell Dana to a trader heading for Georgia or Louisiana, before she ran away. Kevin told him that he was planning to sell her in Louisiana at the end of his journey, and that Dana wasn’t likely to run away from him, because he promised to free her when they returned to New York. 

The reasons why Dana would be a cause to worry about for Tom Weylin is because she is an educated person. She knows how to write and read and he is afraid that she could teach other black people to do these things, which would would give them knowledge of what rights they should have as human beings. By being educated they would believe that they are as equal and even superior than white people which could cause a rebellion against white people. Dana would be able to teach them how to write freedom passes.

Dana would be able to teach and Rufus that all the men are created equal and that they have the same rights as any other person. Everyone knows that knowledge is power and this could bring a lot of problems to the slave owners.

I chose this picture because this is how i think Dana would look like. Here is the link of the picture:

http://coilhouse.net/category/war/page/3/