Brutal Slaveholder’s Life In The Hands of Dana
Dana and Rufus might look like friends from the outside, but Dana’s feelings for him are quite different from what we think of them. To begin with Dana sees Rufus as a child needing or relying upon her protection. For instance, when Dana saved him from drowning in the river. Secondly, she views him as a man of his time. In another words Rufus’s personality is the way that any other man would have been in that period of time towards his slaves. Lastly, he is a ruthless and vicious slaveholder, which Tom Weylin’s fault. Just as Tom’s behaviour on the slaves and on his son. Finally, I will explain in more details how Dana’s feelings for Rufus are in the following paragraphs.
As a child Rufus started depending on Dana. In another words, Rufus’s survival was left in the hands of Dana. Just as when Dana went back to the past the first time to save Rufus from drowning in the river. "I reacted to the child in trouble" (Pg. 13). Also, Rufus depended on her to be his companion. Even more, when Alice killed herself and Dana came back to the past the last time and saw what happened Rufus told her "don’t leave, Dana" (Pg. 256). As Rufus grew older he never really learned to take good care of himself.
Rufus is a man of his time. To begin with he treats his slaves the way any man would do in his period of time. Like the time when his ...
When Dana first meets Rufus during her time travel, he was just a young kid growing up in an extremely racist period of time. Rufus’ initial innocence is exemplified after Dana saves him, as he begins to insist that she call him her master: “The boy gripped my arm. ‘Yes!’ he whispered. ‘You’ll get into trouble if you don’t, if Daddy hears you” (Butler 30). Notably, Rufus’s immediate response was not to harm Dana when she refused to comply with his demands. Instead, he’s emphasizing that she will be harmed by Tom Weylin if she doesn’t call him master. With his young age, this mannerism displays how Rufus is innately innocent. Although Rufus puts Dana in a demeaning position, he follows through these social norms because he believes it is for the
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The narrative enables Douglass to flaunt his hard-earned education. As stated before, his diction brings pathos to his work. He describes his experiences in a way that lets his audience feel the indignity of being owned by another person. For example, D...
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Unlike his peers, his perception of slavery is much more realistic and depressing due to his understanding of his plight situation. For instance, he states, “The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers […] I loathed them as being the meanest as well as the most wicked of men” (334). He is distressed by the hopeless position he is in and the “everlasting thinking of [his] condition tormented [him]” (334). Douglass talks about his seven-year experience under the Hughs. During those years, he accomplished the skill of reading and writing under his mistress’s care; however the short time of hope came to a very abrupt stop when his master advised her to cease the instructing. Douglass writes, “a kind and tender-hearted woman; and in the simplicity of her soul she commenced, when I first went to live with her, to treat me as she supposed one human being out to treat another […] she was a pious, warm, and tender-hearted woman” (332). He witnesses that that humanity does exist and that there are kind owners just like his; however, the circumstances shape them into the stern owners they
Children can identify themselves with fairy-tale characters; they imagine themselves as heroes, who are capable of killing dragons, or simpletons, who demonstrate the superiority over clever people. Fantasies based on the fairy tales are extremely important part of the children’s lives, and this is not only because they describe threatening situations that resemble main fears of a young child such as the fear of getting lost, fear of wrong decisions, fear of monsters or evil animals. Happy endings, which are always present in fairy tales, give children the confidence that despite all their fears they will be able to win in the end. This knowledge helps them to prepare for the difficulties of life, regardless whether they are real or imagined (Doughty, 2006).
According to Douglass, the treatment of a slave was worse than that of an animal. Not only were they valued as an animal, fed like an animal, and beaten like an animal, but also a slave was reduced to an animal when he was just as much of a man as his master. The open mentality a slave had was ...
This essay will study a passage extracted from the law code of Gortyn. It will first present briefly the law code and its provenance, before digging more deeply into the extract and especially its implications about the slavery system. The essay will make several observations, as the division of classes in Gortyn between free men and enslaved people. More specifically, it will discuss the difference that might have existed between serfs and chattel-slaves. The essay will show that slaves had obviously fewer rights than free men, but that they were also granted some protection under the law.
In the passage of the Narrative of Fredrick Douglass, the author masterfully conveys two complimentary tones of liberation and fear. The tones transition by the use of diction and detail. The passage is written entirely in first person, since we are witnessing the struggles of Fredrick Douglass through his eyes. Through his diction, we are able to feel the triumph that comes with freedom along with the hardships. Similarly, detail brings a picturesque view of his adversities. Since the point of view is first person, the reader is able to be a part of the Douglass’ struggles with his new freedom. With diction, detail, and point of view, the reader is able to get a rare glimpse into the past of Fredrick Douglass.Fredrick Douglass’ diction is powerful as he describes his life as a slave and with his new freedom. Fredrick Douglass calls being enslaved an act of “wretchedness,” yet he was able to remain “firm” and eventually left the “chains” of slavery. Fredrick Douglass expresses that being enslaved is a wretched act and that no man should ever deserve such treatment. Despite being a slave, he kept strong and eventually broke the chain of society. However, Fredrick Douglass experienced great “insecurity” and “loneliness” with his new freedom, and was upon a new “hunting-ground.” His new freedom brought other devastating factors, being a new state without any friends, which caused his loneliness. In this new state, he grew insecure for he was in a new danger zone where at any time his freedom could be rejected. With new freedom come new obstacles, which are described in the diction of Fredrick Douglass.
In an occurrence while Dana tries to stop Rufus from selling an african american man from his family, the two have an unforgettable confrontation, Dana said. “Please, rufe. If you do this, you’ll destroy what you mean to preserve. Please don’t… He hit me… It was the breaking of an unspoken agreement between us — a very basic agreement — and he knew it.”(Butler, 238) For the first time Dana’s sense of safety with Rufus is lost. when Rufus betrays her as she has anticipated for a long time, she is filled with fear. Rufus and Dana's relationship for the first time shifts. Before the two had an unspoken agreement to protect each other, but Rufus forgets himself and breaks that trust. He is use to treating the african american people as if they are nothing, he forgets that Dana is the exception. In a final moment in the 1800’s with Rufus, Dana experiences the most fearful moment of her life, while she thinks to herself. “He was not hurting me, would not hurt me if I remained as I was. He was not his father, old and ugly, brutal and disgusting. He smelled of soap, as though he had bathed recently—for me? The red hair was neatly combed and a little damp. I would never be to him what Tess had been to his father—a thing passed around like the whiskey jug at a husking. He wouldn’t do that to me or sell me or . . .“No." A slave was a
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave details the progression of a slave to a man, and thus, the formation of his identity. The narrative functions as a persuasive essay, written in the hopes that it would successfully lead to “hastening the glad day of deliverance to the millions of [his] brethren in bonds” (Douglass 331). As an institution, slavery endeavored to reduce the men, women, and children “in bonds” to a state less than human. The slave identity, according to the institution of slavery, was not to be that of a rational, self forming, equal human being, but rather, a human animal whose purpose is to work and obey the whims of their “master.” For these reasons, Douglass articulates a distinction between the terms ‘man’ and ‘slaves’ under the institution of slavery. In his narrative, Douglass describes the situations and conditions that portray the differences between the two terms. Douglass also depicts the progression he makes from internalizing the slaveholder viewpoints about what his identity should be to creating an identity of his own making. Thus, Douglass’ narrative depicts not simply a search for freedom, but also a search for himself through the abandonment of the slave/animal identity forced upon him by the institution of slavery.
How we meet and interact with other companions are changing throughout generations. Between the two readings From Marriage Markets by June Carbone and Naomi Cahn and Love Me Tinder by Emily Witt explains how relationships are changing and how technology is affecting people relationships. Carbone is an expert on family law and holds the Robina chair of law, science and technology at the University of Minnesota. Cahn is a professor at George Washington University Law school. The second reading by Witt, she is a journalist, an essayist and a critic who work was published in most of the popular newspapers and magazines.
Written by Himself In Classic Slave Narra- tives, edited by Henry Louis GatesJr. , 1-186. New York: New American Library.
2010, “Racial Disparities in Sentencing: Implications for the Criminal Justice System and the African American Community”, African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies 4(1): 1-31, in this Albonetti’s study is discussed in which it was found that minority status alone accounted for an additional sentence length of “one to seven months.” African American defendants were “likely to receive pretrial release but were more likely to be convicted, and be given harsher sentences after conviction than white defendants charged with the same crimes.” One of the reasons behind this are the sentencing laws, it is seen that these laws are designed in a way that they tend to be harsher towards a certain group of people, generally towards the people of color than others thus leading to inequality with the sentencing