Choose any ONE point from the slide and write one paragraph.

Butler makes this chapter horrifying by describing the tense situation in which Dana finds herself in. In the passage, Dana finds herself in the past in which she saves a boy named Rufus who was drowning and gave him mouth to mouth resuscitation. After that, the rufus’s father pointed a gun directly at Dana’s head this chapter includes a horrifying and tense situation as Rufus, who is drowning has not much time to live as people who drown tends to die very quickly, thus it builds tension as the reader are in suspense whether Dana saved Rufus in time or not. The rifle being pointed directly at Dana’s face also builds suspense as the readers do not know if Dana actually got shot. Thus Butler makes this chapter horrifying by describing the tense situation in which Dana finds herself in.

Butler makes the effect of time travel extremely sudden without Dana having any sense of awareness of what is going to happen next. She puts Dana on the spot by throwing her a situation that requires immediate action from Dana, and that sends Dana into a panic without a moment to take in her surroundings and understand the situation she’s in. There was also the possibility that Rufus could not be saved, and that would only lead to more fear and disappointment from Dana, and she would also have to potentially bear a huge beating from Margaret because she had the completely wrong idea about Dana. Butler also presents one threat after another, first Dana having the fate of a drowning boy in her hands, being beaten by a senseless mother, and then being faced with a rifle that would put Dana’s own life in danger.

After Dana returned, she’s faced with Kevin questioning where she went and the change in his behaviour. Once she got back, she’s questioned by Kevin with aggression in his voice, demanding a reason of why she disappeared. He faced her and said “What the hell…how did you get over there?” He whispered. He then grabbed her tightly by the shoulders and asked her what happened as if she wasn’t real. The use of the words “hell” is a huge shift from what he usually says which shows how much disbelief he was in as well as him whispering it to her. The use of force as he “held her tightly” and “touched her as if she wasn’t real” also tells us how he’s treating her differently and how he was in disbelief and treating her as if she was going to be gone again.