Fragility of humanity
I never thought Dana to be capable of murder. She was young, educated, and an aspiring writer working dead end jobs without a murderous bone in her body. Yet throughout the novel we saw the deterioration of Dana as she was put through trial after trial at the plantation. In her first trip to the plantation, Dana mentally comforts herself by telling herself that one day she will return back to her modern life. However, with each trip to plantation she starts to experience the full physical effect of planation life (i.e., whippings, the fields, selling of slaves) and she becomes unable to mentally detach herself. Instead, Dana starts to feel as if she belongs at the plantation more than she does in her own modern life. As Dana suffers from the whippings and daily inhumane treatment, she starts to lose herself and she results to drastic measures such as slitting her wrists just to go back to her mode...