Kindred Study Guide. CLC Hunter

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1 Kindred Study Guide CLC Hunter Be sure to use your calendar. Deadlines are not options. Remember, you have to finish the book project completely to get at least C for the semester. Answers go in your composition notebook. Be sure to label your work. s and Journals: A. s-- they matter. Date entries and do them daily. B. Journals in the back of the book. You have to learn to follow directions. C. I will not pass you if you do not do the s and Journals. D. If you want to get a grade higher than 59.6%--- you have to write the short story paper and read the novel and complete questions

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3 Lab Day Last Lab Day Spirit Assembly Hunter Gone Packet Day Hunter Gone Journal Due Midterm Failures Notices Sent Home May 1 Late Arrival Check in Day Journal Due May Late Arrival Check in Day Final Journal Due Last Class Breakfast Late Arrival Check in Day All Novel Work completed for full credit 21 Hunter Gone Late Arrival Last Day to turn in any remaining work Final Exam 349 Last Day of High School Final Exam 349

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5 Prologue (pgs. 9-11) 1. Discuss the first two sentences---- What does it reveal about the characters? The River (pgs 12-17) The Fire 2. What is the significance of the year, 1976? 3. What happens when Dana is putting away the books? What year is she in? 4. Who is Rufus? --- describe him 5. When Dana returns to modern time, what is her condition? 6. What do you believe the relationship is between Rufus and Dana? Take a guess. Any proof in the text? Section 1 and 2 (pgs 18-33) The Fire 7. When Dana arrives for the second time, what does she discover? 8. Had Rufus changed? How? 9. Where does Rufus think Dana goes when she is not with him? 10. Clues as to the setting of the time travel story? 11. How does Rufus offend Dana? 12. Who is Alice? Why is she unique? 13. What does Rufus ask Dana to call him? Why? 14. Define ante bellum 15. Section 3, 4, 5 and 6 (pages 33-51) 16. The last line in the second paragraph of section three is telling. Reflect on Dana s comment. 17. Why does Dana wish that dizziness would occur? 18. Explain the incident at the Greenwood cabin. Who are the characters? What happens? Why? 19. Who are the Weylin s? 20. Why would Alice s mom fear helping Dana? Why is Dana trouble for the mother? 21. Alice s mom asks if Dana had been carried off, what does she mean? Why did Dana feel like she had been kidnapped? 22. Why does Tom Weylin not want his slave, the husband, to see Alice s mother? 23. Who does Dana look like?

6 The Fall 24. When Dana is attacked, what is her fear? 25. What causes Dana to travel back to modern times? 26. On her second trip, how long was Dana gone? Where does she go and in what timeframe? 27. Explain what a patroller is? 28. Why is Dana s bible important? 29. What is the plan that Kevin suggests? Be specific. 30. On page 50, Dana explains why she travels. Explain what she says? 31. On page 51, Dana explains a dilemma about killing or being killed. Explain what she means? 32. You have read 50 pages of the story, do you like it? Any observations you would like to share? Sections 1, 2 and 3 (pages 52-74) 33. What is the literary technique that Butler employs at the beginning of the chapter? 34. Dana refers to her job as the slave market. What does she actually do? Dana also explains why it is not actually a slave market. Why? 35. What is Dana s chosen profession? 36. Describe Kevin s appearance. 37. Who is Buz? Describe him. 38. Dana and Kevin have three similarities. What are they? 39. What does Buz mean when he says Chocolate and vanilla porn! 40. At the end of the paragraph on the top of page 57, Dana uses the word kindred. Why is it significant? 41. Where do Kevin and Dana go on their first date? 42. Why does Kevin go back in time with Dana? What do they have with them? 43. What is wrong with Rufus? 44. Who is with Rufus? Describe him. 45. Kevin tells Rufus that he is married to Dana. What is Rufus reaction? Explain. 46. Explain Dana s white trash comment. 47. How does Kevin prove the time/year problem? Explain. 48. Tom Weylin says Guess it s broken all right. Wonder how much that ll cost me. What does Tom mean? 49. Why is Dana disappointed in the construction of the Weylin plantation home? 50. Who is Luke and why does he say to Dana, You watch out. 51. On page 68, in the paragraph second from the bottom of the page, read the text from I was the worst. to the end of the page. Explain why this quote is important. Why is it ironic?

7 The Fall 52. Who is Margaret? Describe her. 53. Who is Carrie? What is her handicap? 54. Nigel expresses two concerns to Dana on page 74. Explain his concerns. Sections 4, 5, 6 and 7 (pages ) The Fall 55. According to Dana what is the horror story she must live with? 56. Why did Tom Weylin not sell Carrie? 57. What concerns Dana about Kevin and a long term stay in the Ante Bellum South? 58. What job does Tom Weylin give Kevin? Why? 59. Why is Tom resentful of Dana? What is the lie that Kevin tells to get Tom to quit asking about Dana? Detail the plans. 60. List three reasons why Margaret hates Dana. 61. What does Dana want as insurance if she has to come back to the South alone? How can Kevin help? 62. On page 83, what is the foreshadowing about Margaret? 63. What is Kevin s plan to get he and Dana home? 64. What motivates Dana to sleep in Kevin s room? 65. Who is Miss Hannah? What happened to her? 66. What is the first book that Dana reads to Rufus? 67. What is Sarah s motivation for hating Margaret? 68. What is the basis for Sarah and Tom Weylin to talk? Venture a guess. 69. Explain Dana s concerns about becoming comfortable members of the household. 70. What is Luke s job? Explain. 71. What does Nigel ask Dana to do? Section 8 (pages ) 72. Who is Virgie? 73. What does Rufus tell Margaret to do? 74. Why does Weylin show up in the cook house? 75. Dana fears Sarah more than Tom Weylin when it comes to teaching Carrie to read and write. Why?

8 The Fight Sections 1-5 (pages ) The Fight 76. Explain why Dana travels back to modern times at the end of The Fall. 77. What is the purpose of the flashback scene to open The Fight? 78. Explain the reaction to Dana and Kevin s decision to marry. Give details about the reaction from both families. 79. When Dana awakes at the beginning of section 2, what is her condition? 80. Detail the contents of the bag she packs. What is different this time around? 81. How much time was Dana gone during her third visit. Both current and ante bellum. 82. According to Dana, how are ante bellum whites and Nazis similar? 83. How many days pass before Dana returns to the ante bellum south? 84. Who is Alice Jackson? Issac Jackson? Are they slaves? What is their relationship to Rufus? 85. What does Dana mean when she says there was no shame in raping a black woman, but there could be shame in loving one? 86. Who is Hagar? 87. Describe Tom, Carrie and Nigel upon Dana s return to the ante bellum south. 88. Describe Tom s reaction to seeing Dana upon her return. Sections 6-11 (pages ) 89. Where did Margaret go? 90. What from the future does Dana give Rufus? 91. What did Rufus do for Nigel and Carrie? Why is it unique? 92. What does jump the broomstick mean? 93. How many days had passed in 1976 time? (135) 94. Name the locations that Kevin has been. How do we know? 95. What did Rufus promise Dana? 96. Why does Margaret leave? 97. Who is Jake Edwards? What is his reputation? To whom is he related? 98. What happened to Luke? Why? 99. What is the threat Rufus tells Dana in relationship to teaching blacks to read? Explain why the threat is legitimate? 100. Dana lets Rufus read one of her books. What is Rufus reaction to the text? 101. What does Rufus make Dana do with the map? Why does she consider it blackmail? 102. According to Rufus, why does Tom almost shoot Kevin?

9 The Fight 103. What does Rufus mean when he says to Dana You re home.? 104. How many days were Issac and Alice gone? 105. Why do the field slaves resent Sarah? Why are things better at the house now? 106. Where does Rufus take Alice upon her return? Why is it unusual? 107. Explain what happens to Isaac? 108. How does Alice become a slave? 109. After Alice begins to heal, what does Rufus want from her? 110. On page 166, explain Alice s three choices. Sections (pages ) 111. According to Dana, how does Rufus control her? Explain the example she uses? 112. What does Rufus do that causes Dana to runaway? 113. Who searches for Dana? 114. When Dana is whipped, why does she not vanish? 115. Why does Dana agree that educated is not smart? 116. Who is Liza? What happens to her? 117. Why does Tom write Kevin? 118. According to Rufus, why does Dana have to be whipped? 119. Explain why Dana believes that Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.? 120. Who does Dana mistake for Kevin? 121. How long has Kevin been stuck in time? 122. Explain how Rufus makes Kevin and Dana stay for dinner? The Storm The Storm to the end of the book--- There are eighteen sections of the book remaining. For each section of the book, you are to construct a meaningful question that would act as a study guide question for that section. You are to construct and answer the question, along with including the page number of the answer. Please label the question by section. This assignment is not optional. You may do one extra question, per section, for extra credit. Only ONE Question a section.