Monday, April 23, 2012

The Fall

Monday 23, 2012
Blog # 6
                                           

                                   

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        In class, professor Ximena Gallardo is teaching us how it was to be a slave in the old times. To get a better idea of the slavery, we are reading a book called Kindred by Octavia Butler. The assignment was to choose one question out of three. I chose to write about the ways Dana was dangerous to the way of life in the Weylin household.

        Dana is dangerous to Tom Weylin in many ways. She is a smart black women who can read and write. As a white man, Tom Weylin is less educated than Dana. So, he feels inferior to her and acts weird. The Weyland plantation in Maryland education for the slaves were prohibited. The white people did not want their slaves to know how to read and write. They were scared that if they learn how to read and write, they would be able to rebel against their owners. Weylin tried to convince Kevin that she is too smart and educated as a slave and told him to sell her before she ran away. Since she was an educated slave, she could teach the other slaves how to read and write. She could also teach them how to write freedom passes which would help the slaves to set free.

        She is also dangerous for his household because he thinks that not only slaves can be educated by her, but Dana can also educate Rufus as a different white man. Then he might see the slaves from a different view point. It was like a red signal to Tom Weylin.

1 comment:

  1. I think you have some good reasons here: her difference and modernity tell Weylin that his way of life is wrong (or that in the future it will be wrong).

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