Why does Dana end up in the hospital?

She was taken to the hospital, where doctors amputated her arm to above the elbow. The police arrested Kevin, believing him responsible for the injury to Dana's arm. Dana told them the injury was an accident and that it was her fault.
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Why does Dana end up losing her arm?

Significantly, Dana seems to lose her arm because Rufus keeps hold of her wrist when she transports back to the present. Rufus' touch symbolically represents the power that Rufus had as Dana's master and the lingering effect that living under the white master's thumb had on enslaved people and their children.
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Why did Dana cut her wrist?

Dana and Rufus have always had a tacit agreement: she will save him and care for and about him, and he will respect her. Rufus has repeatedly broken the spirit of that agreement, but when he lays his hand on her, he physically breaks the pact. Fury at this betrayal may be part of what motivates Dana to cut her wrists.
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What happens to Dana at the cabin?

Dana heads out into the woods and finds the cabin she's looking for. But before she can get there, she sees a gang of white men barge into the cabin, knock a woman unconscious, and drag out a black man kicking and screaming. They whip him nearly to death and drag him toward the Weylin house.
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Why did Dana not leave her house?

Summary: The Fall, Part 5

Kevin tries to persuade Dana to leave the Weylins. Dana refuses. She worries that someday she will have to return to the plantation alone, and she wants Rufus to have as many fond memories of her as possible.
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What happened to Dana in Kindred?

Dana travels back to 1976 after a man attacks her in the woods. Once back, she and Kevin figure out that she goes back in time whenever Rufus needs his life saved and she comes back to 1976 whenever she thinks her life's in danger. Dana continues travelling back in time.
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Why did Dana run away?

The papers are Dana's letters to Kevin, meaning that Rufus never mailed them. Dana decides to run away from the plantation when she finds out. When she's trying to flee, Rufus comes riding after her with his father. Someone must have tipped them off about Dana leaving.
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Who is the red haired boy playing with fire?

Who is the red-haired boy playing with fire? How does Dana know him and how is he different during this visit? Rufus. The same child that she rescued from the river.
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What is the connection between Dana and Alice?

Alice functions as a mirror for Dana, and Butler creates notable similarities between them. Alice is Dana's ancestor, and the two women look alike.
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What happened to Rufus in the storm?

Summary: The Fight, Part 2

Rufus is drunk and lying facedown in a puddle. Dana turns him over and fetches Nigel, who carries Rufus to the house. Weylin, looking old and frail, tells her that as long as she continues to save Rufus's life, he will allow her to stay.
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What does the ending of kindred mean?

After Helen realizes that Frank is her real father, she regains memory of the fateful night – her adoptive father, Robert, overwhelmed by guilt, had confessed to his part in the crimes committed, while relaying her true parentage to her.
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When did Dana slit wrists?

Since the big Dana reveal in the Season 3 première—that a deadly attack on the C.I.A. and her father's presumed involvement led her to slit her wrists—and the Dana-heavy first two episodes of the season, there's been renewed hostility toward the character.
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Who does Rufus sell in Kindred?

Dana recognizes one of the slaves and realizes that Rufus must have sold her. Rufus shows up and orders Dana to get away from the slaves. She argues with him and shames him for selling off Tess. Rufus says that the slaves are his property and he'll do whatever he wants with them.
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Who is Dana kindred?

Dana is the narrator and heroine of the novel. A young black woman writer living in the end of the twentieth century, she finds herself plunged into the antebellum South of the nineteenth century, an alien world in which she must struggle to establish an identity and to maintain her freedom.
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Who is Rufus weylin?

Rufus Weylin

The inconsistent, power-drunk slave owner and the father of one of Dana's ancestors. Rufus rapes and enslaves Alice and attempts to rape and enslave Dana. He longs to be loved but expects to always get his way, using coercion and violence if he is denied.
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Who is Alice in Kindred?

Alice Greenwood is Dana's long-dead ancestor, but Dana gets a chance to meet her when she travels back in time. Alice starts life as a free woman, but gets thrown into slavery after she tries to run away with a fugitive slave named Isaac.
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Did Dana cheat on Alice?

Dana and Alice have an affair in the first half of season two of The L Word, while Dana is engaged to Tonya.
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What happened to Dana The L Word?

One of the most heartbreaking story lines throughout The L Word's 2004-2009 run was during season 3 when Erin Daniels' Dana developed breast cancer and died. It was a brutally emotional development, especially for Dana's best friend and (sometimes) girlfriend Alice.
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Does Dana love Rufus?

Dana reflects that Rufus loves her because she cares about him. She wonders why she does not hate him, as Alice does, and why she keeps forgiving him. Despite her fondness for Rufus, she thinks she would kill him if he tried to rape her.
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Did Nigel run away in Kindred?

Rufus warns Dana that if she acts like Luke, Weylin could sell her too. He says Nigel ran away but was caught, whipped, and brought back. Rufus finds a book on slavery that Dana brought from 1976.
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Where did Kevin meet Dana?

Dana tells the story of how she met Kevin. She wrote late at night, and to make ends meet, she did menial jobs assigned to her by a temp office, which they called a “slave market.” While working at an auto parts warehouse, she met Kevin.
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Why does Dana keep her journal in shorthand?

She begins to keep a journal in secretarial shorthand to keep herself sane and relieve her boredom. Dana even attends a corn husking party to distract herself.
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Who did Nigel marry in Kindred?

Yet Nigel is tied down on the Weylin plantation when he marries Carrie and has a son, Jude.
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