Symbolism In Kindred

a) Why does Dana begin to constantly battle her conscious after realizing that her time traveling wasn’t going to just be a one or two time thing?
After understanding that time traveling wasn’t going to be a one time thing, Dana begins to battle her conscious mainly because she doesn’t know if she is morally bound to let Rufus live or die. Dana begins to slowly understand her life relies on Rufus’s actions after she has been put into several situations in which she has had to save his life. She starts to ponder and make the conclusion that if Rufus survives, she will also survive and make it back to California. Dana continues to go along with this mindset for a while, but eventually she starts to second-guess it, and therefore fights her conscious.

The men who use whips in the novel, Tom, Rufus, and Jake are all men that the slaves are afraid of. These guys are selfish and bitter and they use violence (whippings) for punishments, to hurt slaves, and even for pleasure. In the South, a white man with a whip often embodies evilness and anger. The functionality of the whip makes for slow and painful torture of the slaves. These whips are able to kill people, accept instead of killing very quickly, they kill very slowly and more painfully than other methods of killing. Whippings clearly show the white man had all the power, and that no one would be able to challenge them because of their desire for violence. All the white man wanted was to show his superiority, and with harsh whippings he surely

She quickly begins to realize what time period she is in, and slowly adapts to it and starts to fit in. In our modern society today, learning and doing is also a common practice. As little babies, and toddlers we learn how to do things from our parents and peers, and we then start to do them. This practice of learning and doing continues through our childhood, adolescence, and lifetime. A specific practice as to where learning and doing takes place is in our education system (schooling). In our school programs today, learning and doing have become inseparable (rephrase). Teachers teach students about things like arithmetic, reading, and writing. Students are expected to follow everything they teach, and replicate the ways in which the teachers teach them to do things. These ways in our education system are similar to Dana’s world, where Sarah would teach her how to do things like cook, and Dana would have to replicate her cooking. The main reason as to why we have not abolished this practice is because it’s very effective, and majority of the time works. Learning and doing is an easy way to learn how to do things efficiently and the right way, and is much easier than teaching yourself. It’ part of human nature to watch how to do something, and to then do it, so there’s no reason to abolish learning and doing at