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heard a metallic click, and I froze.”” (Butler,36) Dana also shows the same feelings in her second visit as well. While she’s hiding in the bushes, she experienced the white men whipped a black man. As she quotes, The white men, “hustled the man to a tree so close to me that I lay flat on the ground, stiff with fear. With just a little bad luck, one of the whites could spot me, or, in the darkness, fail to spot me and to step on me. When they start beating the black man I could literally smell his sweat, hear every ragged breath…..” A factor that also related to Dana past reflecting on the present is her mixed feelings and emotions between her traveling to these two time periods. As for Christine, her past has become a stronger reality. Even

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