1. Your team will be assigned some chapters from Kindred

2. Based on those chapters and issues you are to create the following:

   
   

   Main Concern

3. The main concern of the Chapter and parts of the Novel you've been assigned. Eg. The Fall Part 1 to 8 Dana and Kevin travel back together and Kevin experiences firsthand the racism and reality of slavery in the South.

   
   

4. 2x Essay Questions (that you might be asked during an exam)

   
   

5. 1x PBQ question (choose the passage and come up with the (i)(ii) questions

Question 1: Character, relationship and effect

How does Butler make the relationship between Dana and Rufus so striking?

Question 2: Thematic

In what ways does Butler explroe the idea of family in this novel?

Question 3 (PBQ): Passage is about Dana and Kevin meeting at their workplace

(i) Character, Effect

In what ways does Butler make you feel sympathy for Dana in this passage?

(ii) Character, Effect

Explore one other moment in the novel where Butler makes you feel particular sympathy for Dana.

I looked around, seeing very little at first as my eyes became accustomed to the dimmer light. I turned to the place where I had been strung up and whipped—and jumped back in surprise when I saw that someone was hanging there. Hanging by the neck. A woman.

Alice.

I stared at her, not believing ,not wanting to believe...I touched her and her flesh was cold and hard. The dead gray face was ugly in death as it had never been in life. The mouth was open. The eyes were open and staring. Her head was bare and her hair loose and short like mine. She had never liked to tie it up the way other women did. It was one of the things that had made us look even more alike— the only two consistently bareheaded women on the place. Her dress was dark red and her apron clean and white. She wore shoes that Rufus had had made specifically for her, not the rough heavy shoes or boots other slaves wore. It was as though she had dressed up and combed her hair and then…

1. How does Butler make you feel horrified for Dana in this passage?

2. Explore one other moment in the play where a horrifying element was portrayed.

She wore shoes that Rufus had had made specifically for her, not the rough heavy shoes or boots other slaves wore. It was as though she had dressed up and combed her hair and then

I wanted her down.

I looked around, saw that the rope had been tied to a wall peg, thrown over a beam. I broke my fingernails, trying to untie it until I remembered my knife. I got it from my bag and cut Alice down.

She fell stiffly like something that would break when it hit the floor. But she landed without breaking and I took the rope from her neck and closed her eyes. For a time, I just sat with her, holding her head and crying silently

Eventually, Rufus came in. I looked up at him and he looked

away.

"Did she do this to herself?' I asked.

‘Yes. To herself.’

'Why?’

He didn’t answer.

“Rufe?”

He shook his head slowly from side to side.

"Where are her children?'

He turned and walked out of the barn.

I straightened Alice's body and her dress and looked around

for something to cover her with. There was nothing.

I left the barn and went across an expanse of grass to the

cookhouse. Sarah was their chopping meat with that frightening speed and coordination of hers. I had told her once that it always looked as though she was about to cut off a finger or two, and she had laughed. She still had all ten.

"Sarah? There was such a difference in our ages now that

land so much. everyone else my age called her Aunt Sarah? I knew it was a title of respect in this culture, and I respected her. But I couldn't quite manage Aunt' any more than I could have managed 'Mammy’

She didn't seem to mind.

She looked up. ‘Dana! Girl, what are you doing back here?’

‘I'm not sure. But, Sarah, Alice is dead.’

Sarah put down her cleaver and sat on the bench next to the table. ‘Oh Lord. Poor child. He finally killed her.’

‘I don't know,’ I said. I went over and sat beside her. ‘I think she did it to herself. Hung herself. I just took her down.’

"He did it! she hissed. Even if he didn't put the rope on her, he drove her to it. He sold her babies!’

I frowned. Sarah had spoken clearly enough, loudly enough,

but for a moment, I didn't understand. Joe and Hagar? His

children?'

‘What he care "bout that?'

‘But … he did care. He was going to…Why would he do

such a thing?’

‘She run off?’ Sarah faced me. ‘You must have known she was goin'. You and her was like sisters.’

I didn't need the reminder. I got up, feeling that I had to move around, distract myself, or I would cry again.

‘You sure fought like sisters,’ said Sarah. ‘Always fussin' at each other, stompin' away from each other, comin' back. Right after you left, she knocked the devil out of a field hand who was runnin' you down.’

Had she? She would. Insulting me was her prerogative. No trespassing. I paced from the table to the hearth to a small work table. Back to Sarah.

"Dana, where is she?’

‘In the barn.'

‘He'll give her a big funeral.’ Sarah shook her head. ‘It's funny. I thought she was finally settlin' down with him - getting not to mind so much.’

'If she was, I don't think she could have forgiven herself for it.’

Sarah shrugged.

Pbq i) in what way does butler makes you feel pity for Dana in this passage?

Pbq ii) explore one other moment in the novel that makes you feel particularly bad for Dana.