Uncle Tom’s Cabin was once the most popular novel in nineteenth century, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe after the Fugitive Slave Act. Also, this extraordinary novel revealed the gloomy slavery code and racism at that time period, which arouse humans’ compassion worldwide and greatly influenced the abolishing movement of slavery in America. Since Ms. Stowe is a devout Christian, she endowed the book with strong religious color and many character in her book show the Christian humanitarianism. Eva is one of the best example of these Christian virtue’s incarnation. Eva is the daughter of Augustine St. Clare, the second master of Uncle Tom. Her full name is Evangeline St Clare, which is s the angel in the Bible. Just as her name, Eva is an angelic girl, and her compassion to others and enthusiasm to life also deeply influence people in her life. Exactly as her father Mr. St Clare mentioned in the book, “hath not God made thee an evangel to me?” Eva is not only the evangel to Mr. St Clare, but also evangel to Uncle Tom, Topsy and others around her. The first time we see Eva is through Uncle Tom’s eyes. They meet at the steamboat heading downriver to New Orleans and get to know each other, since they have similarly kind-hearted soul inside. After Eva gets to know the situation of Tom, she, almost instantly promises …show more content…
“To him she seemed something almost divine; and whenever her golden head and deep blue eyes peered out upon him from behind some dusky cotton-bale, or looked down upon him over some ridge of packages, he half believed that he saw one of the angels stepped out of his New Testament.” This little girl is depicted as a golden-haired, blue-eyed angel, and actually she is an angel. though the depiction of Eva’s appearance contains negative connotations, it also tries to make readers to realize their possible prejudice to the black slavery’s appearance. These slavery has the same virtuous soul as