Kindred pages 9-35

5 Comments:
1. This story is very interesting, the main character seems to go back and forth from different places; when she left the first time she helped a boy named Rufus.
2. When she came back, she did not know what was happening to her and how it had happened.
3. When she went back for a second time, she was with the same boy Rufus and they talked about where she was and how she had gotten there.
4. Dana realized that she might related to Rufus because of a family member that worked on the plantation might have had kids with him.
5. When Dana realizes that she can not go back yet in other words, she can not control when she leaves and when she comes back.

4 questions:
1. Where did she go?
2. Why did she go there?
3. Why can't she control when she leaves and when she comes?
4. What is the link between the boy and Dana?

3 Vocabulary Words:
1. perversity(page 12): the state or quality of being preverse
2. resuscitation(page 24): to revive, esp. from apparent death or unconsciousness
3. linoleum(page 19): a hard, washable floor covering formed by coating burlap or canvas with linseed oil, powdered cork, and rosin, and adding pigments to create the desired colors and patterns.

2 Literary Terms:
1. imagery(pages 14-15)
2. foreshasowing(pages 9-11)
3. paradox(page 29)

1 Summary Sentence
This is teh beginning of an adventure that nobody can forget about, Dana nor Rufus.