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One theme that is used very heavily in the book is Christianity. In the book it finds the characters who are good to have a deep faith in god. Meanwhile the vile characters don’t show the same portrayal as deep christians. For example Simon Legree literally wants to destroy all of Tom’s faith in god. There are good characters like Eva, Tom, or George (Toms original owners child) a character at the end of the book to live a good Christian life lie Tom did, but then there are the characters like Legree who are utterly insane with hate for people. The reason that there is such a massive Christian theme and presence used in the novel is basically the book’s audience was mainly Protestant. Something brought up by Sparknotes is “Throughout the …show more content…

For one Stowe ingeniously toyed with the heartstrings with the use of emotion. She made it heart wrenching to see Uncle Tom be separated from his family. The way a reader is able to connect and care for the characters is able to put a face on slavery that can make a reader quite emotional. She made it so not all of the Southern characters were portrayed as horrible demons.This characters like St. Clare don’t tolerate slavery in the book but do what the can to speak against the practice of slavery. This was in an effort not to offend southerners but get them on the abolitionist side. Stowe also introduced so many Northerners to the horrors of slavery in the first place. Before Uncle Tom’s cabin there were only a few bickering abolitionists. The northern U.S. was filled with racism that was beyond rampant. Northerners didn’t care for the free or enslaved blacks and certainly didn’t view them as equals. This swayed many Northerners to become …show more content…

Commentarymagazine.com writes about a letter that Stowe sent with, “Stowe herself wrote a friend a year-and-a-half after the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin saying, ‘The effects of the book so far have been, I think, these: 1t. To soften and moderate the bitterness of feeling in extreme abolitionists. 2nd. To convert to abolitionist view many whom the ame bitterness had repelled. 3rd. To inspire the free colored people with self-respect, hope, and confidence. 4th to inspire universally through the country a kindlier feeling toward the negro

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This book tells about slavery in America, which is a period that should never be forgotten. It is definitely a black eye in our nation’s history, and once again the easiest way to not let history repeat itself is by never letting the events be forgotten in the first place. By saving this book and retelling it to others, it would be helping people understand our nation’s history better and more fully, as it describes in great detail the brutal mistreatment put upon slaves during the time it was written. Uncle Tom’s Cabin also features heart-wrenching emotional appeal. Similar to what Elie Wiesel did with Night, Stowe is able to draw an almost personal connection between the reader and the characters in the book.

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Harriet Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin to show the American people how terrible slavery was (H. Stowe and Yellin xi). Stowe offered to provide the Washington DC National Era, the editor of which was “an old friend”, a succession of “sketches” (H. Stowe and Yellin xiv). The stories that would become Uncle Tom’s Cabin appeared in the National Era, as an ongoing column, from June 3, 1851 to April 2, 1952 (H. Stowe and Yellin xx). In March 1852, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published as a book (H. Stowe and Yellin xx).

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The author, Harriet Beecher Stowe was an abolitionist herself. To express her claim, she created different kinds of characters to let them stand at various point of view. Through those characters, the audience could see the difference among normal people, abolitionists, and people who secretly support slavery. Without Stowe’s political objective – for abolitionism – the novel would be seemed as void and barren. Back to the characters she made, they were a little too simple

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The second theme in the book is survival. Survival is a major theme because throughout the majority of the book Alan and Barry are fighting to survive against the townspeople and the difficult terrain that surrounds them. Berry and Alan are almost constantly in a tense situation where they have to fight for their lives. “Wake and Berry were surviving for now.” (pg 214)

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The novel was successful in pushing the country further toward abolishing slavery, through showing the hypocrisy of a “Christian” country, with Christianity. Using this progressive form of Christianity into a religion of resistance, against the status quo at the time(lecture1). When the novel was released in 1852, the country already split between the southern slave states and the free states of the north. What Harriet Beecher Stowe did was bring the hypocrisy and horrors of slavery into the living rooms of the white northern citizens and all across the nation. Many other works argued the same issues as her, while others argued against her point on where Christianity stood on slavery.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin, a novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852, influenced many Northerners to fight against slavery. At the age of 21, Harriet Stowe traveled to Ohio, the place she would gain information from slaves about their horrible lifestyles. Because of Stowe's hate towards the Fugitive Slave Act, she decided to inform others about slave cruelty, and wrote of Tom, a slave of Simon Legree, and was beaten to death by his owner. In response to this novel, Northerners quickly began the journey of ending slavery, as Southerners believed it was just another book attempting to tarnish their image. Uncle Tom's Cabin was the one of the first writings that greatly impacted the ideas put upon slavery.

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When Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin because she wanted to stir up an anti-slavery statement. Slavery was already the unpopular choice for Northerners, but Harriet Beecher Stowe made the Northerners even more opposed to slavery. Slavery even became less popular in the Southern states. The novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin made many Northerners realize how unjust slavery was for the first time, and increased the differences between the North and the South.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe was one of the outstanding essayist in American society in the 19th century. She was the primary abolitionist essayist and propelled by a dream of a diminishing slave, at that point, she chose to compose Uncle tom's cabin with a specific end goal to scrutinize the outlaw Slave law and outline the cruelty of subjugation in the brains of American perusers. Harriet beecher when published her anti slavery novel, primarily she started with the social challenge against slavery and added to the episode of civil and war. The novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin is still considered to be a standout amongst the most persuasive works in the standard of abolitionist bondage writing that is on the grounds that it changed impression of subjugation

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If I give you money, it will only be taken from you. But I tell you solemnly, and before God, that I will keep trace of you, and bring you back as soon as I can command the money;-and, till then, trust in God,” (page 111, paragraph 4), this shows there was a ‘bad’ and ‘good’ as well, proving that there was no biased opinions in this book about the South. As for the Southern Literary Messenger to say Stowe’s work is nothing but fiction, is profoundly nonsense. Stowe herself wrote how the novel is indeed “authentic to some extent,” and how “many sayings are word for word (page 466, paragraph 2).” Uncle Tom’s Cabin was also influenced by Josiah Henson’s memoir which is said to be, “one of the first slave narratives,” along with his home being the “real” Cabin.

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While both authors present a similar story with similar events Jacobs gives a primary account of slavery by emotionally connecting with all of slavery’s brutality while Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin gives a more impartial judgment to the situation through observation. Essentially, both perspectives give a holistic view of the given situation and provide the ideological support to strengthen the argument against slavery and in favor of joining the abolitionist movement. Because both pieces of literature gained an international presence, the gospel of abolition spread and gained support (“Abolitionist Movement”). In respect to Jacobs’ and Stowe’s work, the support for the Abolitionist movement ultimately pushes America toward political action in the form of the Civil War that underscores the thematic goal and expectation of American society from its founding: that all men are created

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Stowe carefully fills Uncle Tom’s Cabin with religious symbolism in an effort to shift American public attention to the main thing she feels could end slavery, the spirit of the New Testament. In her introduction to the novel Stowe claims that she is simply a medium through which God’s word could be written and understood by all. Whether this is the reason or not, Stowe uses an informal and conversational writing style that expertly highlights everything that is wrong with the institution that is slavery. Uncle Tom's Cabin struck a nerve and embedded its way into American and worldwide culture. After a century and a half, this classic anti-slavery novel remains a timeless, engaging, and powerful tale that challenges its readers to confront

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin, written around the time of the Civil War in 1852, was a major turning point for the time period and caused many people to look at slavery in a new way. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s intent was to show the inhumanity of slavery and to describe the injustice that African Americans endured during the time period which she lived. She showed this through the actions of the slave owners, how they treated them, how they talked to them and how they separated them from their families. The living conditions for the slaves solely depended on the master or the slave owner to whom they belonged.

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Stowe, wrote this book to describe the condition of slavery in the South, aiming to inform the people of the North about what was happing to those victims. The events throughout the story are nightmarish, as they mirror the bitterness of what those poor people had suffered

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1st Period In Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s point that she was trying to get communicate in Uncle Tom’s Cabin is that slavery should be abolished. She communicated this by showing the reader how brutal and callous humans can be, how hard it was for blacks to become free, and how loyal some slaves were despite the fact that they were treated as if they were property. One way Stowe showed that slavery should be abolished is by showing the reader the brutal treatment of the slaves. Stowe included how slave owners like Master Simon Legree work their slaves to death and buy more slaves for cheap, repeating this cycle over and over(Ch 31).

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