In the end, Nigel goes on to play an important role in acquiring Alice’s children and taking them to Baltimore where he lives and trains them.Īlice’s mother is friends with Dana and assists her with her quests.
He later marries Carrie and has a son Jude, and covers up proof that Dana murdered Rufus by burning Weylin’s house. He enjoys certain privileges by being close to Rufus, but no less detests the dehumanizing treatment his kind gets. In the end, much later in life, she started doing drugs.Īlso, a slave with the Weylin family and a personal helper to Rufus both of whom are about the same age. To the slaves under her roof, she is unbelievably hard, harsh, and overbearing. Margaret is particularly hateful of Dana when she comes into the picture because she is intimidated by her education and learnedness. She is portrayed as mostly being jobless and lacking in the industry. She is the mother to Rufus and twice to Tom. Rufus sells Alice’s children as recompense for trying to leave him, but she commits suicide afterward. While under the Weylins, she is forced to marry or become a mistress to Rufus – who looks to genuinely love her but still can’t get the hang of treating Blacks any better.Īlicia is frustrated by the conditions under which she leaves and soon runs away (but is caught) after giving birth to two children – Joseph and Hagar – the latter of which is to be the great grandmother to Dana. She was previously married to Isaac Jackson, also Black, but was taken away from him after his arrest. He’s the perfect example of a fine gentleman of his time – the 1800s slavery era merciless, segregative, and remorseless.Īlice is a young Black slave girl who bought the Weylins. Tom is not only cruel to his slaves but also to his son as most of the dangers Dana trips back in time to save Rufus from are caused by or traced back to Tom. He is the father to Rufus, who first control the Weylin plantation before his death. Kelvin portrays the ideal white man the world needs because he has respect for all races and shuns racism, unlike Rufus and Tom, who are portrayed as cruel and insensitive towards other races. Their marriage is one that gets massive criticism from their society because is a white man.
Kelvin is Dana’s husband, and like her, he’s also a writer. However, as Rufus grows with every saves, he goes from being an innocent boy to being callous and cruel, and when he becomes the master at Weylin plantation after Tom, his father, passes away, he treats his (Black) slaves the same way his cruel father did mercilessly. There are several scenarios where Dana saves Rufus- starting from the river where Rufus, then a little boy, is drowning. Right from the onset, Rufus is a troubled character who often gets himself into trouble, leaving only Dana with the ability to come to his rescue. He is the ancestor of Dana, as a result of an affair with one of his Black young maids, Alice. In the end, Dana is able to preserve her lineage but at the cost of losing her left arm on her last time trip. Her husband Kelvin even accuses her of having an affair with Rufus, yet that isn’t the case. The event of her time trips becomes very frequent – with her even carrying Kelvin in one of her trips, and soon she finds herself struggling with balancing the relationships she has with the people in her reality, such as Kelvin, and those she travels to meet in the past such as Rufus.
Dana is a writer who’s trying to get her life together but is suddenly being summoned away from her 1976 reality into the reality of the early 1800s, to save her ancestor on several occasions. She is a young and courageous Black woman who is – against society’s expectations – married to Kelvin, a white man. Some characters are nice and lovable, while some are wicked and cruel, as readers are about to find out in this article.Įdana Franklin, or simply Dana, is the lead character and protagonist in ‘ Kindred’. Readers see how the young and courageous Dana leads a team of unique characters in ‘ Kindred’ and happen to travel through time back to the 1800s to fix issues relating to her ancestral great grandfathers.
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