Harriet Beecher Stowe was the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." The book was an anti-slavery book published in 1852. The book was also known as titled "The Life among the Lowly." According to William Kaufman, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" helped lay the groundwork for Civil War.
Blog Post #2 Tom continues to travel along the Mississippi with Haley, who trusts Tom, and in reward he is able to roam the boat freely. Tom meets a little girl named Eva St. Clare, whom they became very good friends, and she asks her father to buy Tom. One day Eva falls over the side of the boat, and Tom rushes over to save her. Grateful for saving his daughter, St. Clare offers to buy Tom from Haley. We learn a little of the history of Augustine St. Clare and his family. Marie Clare, the wife is very possessive, controlling, and vain. She imagines she is ill, complains excessively, and blames the slaves for her mental state. St. Clare invites his cousin Ophelia to live with them. Ophelia is from New England and is aghast by the “southern” way of life; she and Augustine love each other very much but argue a lot about the state of slaves. Meanwhile, Eliza and George enjoy the hospitality of the Quakers until Phineas (Quaker) warns them Tom Loker is in town. Phineas offers to drive them and the Hallidays. As Tom and the other bounty hunters gain on the group, they escape to a small space allowing them a high advantage. Tom Loker is shot and the rest of his gang abandon the wounded Tom. Eliza pities Tom, and the group agrees to carry him to be healed.
Blog Post #1 The novel opens up with Mr. Shelby and Mr. Haley, a slave owner, discussing how many slaves Mr. Shelby will have to give up in order to fulfill his debt. Mr. Shelby decides to sell Tom whom he describes as an “honest man” and Harry the son of another slave names Eliza. Eliza hears that her son has been sold and makes the decision to take him and run away to Canada. She hopes that she will be able to meet up with her husband who decided that he too would run away from his master.
When attempting to escape, Eliza is almost caught by the slave trader but she escapes into Ohio. Tom on the other hand does not run away he leaves freely. Tom and Mr. Haley are on their way to the South when Tom saves a little girl from drowning. He later learns that her name was Eva. Eva's father decided then and there to buy Tom as Eva's personal servant. However the father as well as the little girl were good people and treated their slaves fairly.
St. Clare buys a young slave named Topsy, who has a problematic past. The Shelbys receive a letter from Tom and desire to buy him back. Tom spends a happy two years with the St. Clares. Eva acquires a cough, and Tom, who has grown close to her, is concerned. St. Clare gets in a morals argument with his brother over the proper treatment of slaves. Eva grows more ill and innocently uses her impending death to reform Topsy and exact a promise from her father to free all his slaves when he dies. She dies, tragically, and then St. Clare gets caught in crossfire in a cafe and also dies before his will is reordered.
- In Chapter 18, Uncle Tom’s new master, St.Clare, a “careless master” (306) especially when dealing with money, which would be easy for Tom to take advantage of his carelessness. Due to Tom’s loyalty, and kindness, he does not feel obligated, and he, if anything, is willing to help St. Clare. After St. Clare is found drunk, Tom had confronted him, and lectured him on trying to take care of himself, and the body that God had given him. Miss Ophelia, ont he other hand is annoyed with the servants, who do things their own way. Prue is miserable, due to her treatment and she feels as if the world is too cruel, and there is no purpose to live, when she says “"O Lord! I wish't I 's dead!”” (318) To feel better, she admits to getting drunk, which relates to the ongoing theme of escaping reality with the use of alcohol. - In Chapter 19, it is learned that Prue, had been whipped to death by her master, after she “got drunk again” (326). This cruelness was questioned by Miss Ophelia, who questioned the law of this behavior and treatment. St. Clare had informed Miss Ophelia that as slaves, they are considered property, and an owner can do whatever he may like with their possessions, in this case, murder their slave, Prue. Meanwhile, Tom has been “mustering up a small stock of literary attainment”(348), and began wanting to write to his wife, with the help of Eva, even though she had admitted to being afraid that she might have “forgotten”(348). This use of sad events, and allowing Tom to grow, not only in intelligence, but in hope, for a better future, by starting with informing himself with knowledge by writing.
Blog Post #2
ReplyDeleteTom continues to travel along the Mississippi with Haley, who trusts Tom, and in reward he is able to roam the boat freely. Tom meets a little girl named Eva St. Clare, whom they became very good friends, and she asks her father to buy Tom. One day Eva falls over the side of the boat, and Tom rushes over to save her. Grateful for saving his daughter, St. Clare offers to buy Tom from Haley. We learn a little of the history of Augustine St. Clare and his family. Marie Clare, the wife is very possessive, controlling, and vain. She imagines she is ill, complains excessively, and blames the slaves for her mental state. St. Clare invites his cousin Ophelia to live with them. Ophelia is from New England and is aghast by the “southern” way of life; she and Augustine love each other very much but argue a lot about the state of slaves. Meanwhile, Eliza and George enjoy the hospitality of the Quakers until Phineas (Quaker) warns them Tom Loker is in town. Phineas offers to drive them and the Hallidays. As Tom and the other bounty hunters gain on the group, they escape to a small space allowing them a high advantage. Tom Loker is shot and the rest of his gang abandon the wounded Tom. Eliza pities Tom, and the group agrees to carry him to be healed.
Blog Post #1
ReplyDeleteThe novel opens up with Mr. Shelby and Mr. Haley, a slave owner, discussing how many slaves Mr. Shelby will have to give up in order to fulfill his debt. Mr. Shelby decides to sell Tom whom he describes as an “honest man” and Harry the son of another slave names Eliza. Eliza hears that her son has been sold and makes the decision to take him and run away to Canada. She hopes that she will be able to meet up with her husband who decided that he too would run away from his master.
When attempting to escape, Eliza is almost caught by the slave trader but she escapes into Ohio. Tom on the other hand does not run away he leaves freely. Tom and Mr. Haley are on their way to the South when Tom saves a little girl from drowning. He later learns that her name was Eva. Eva's father decided then and there to buy Tom as Eva's personal servant. However the father as well as the little girl were good people and treated their slaves fairly.
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ReplyDeleteSt. Clare buys a young slave named Topsy, who has a problematic past. The Shelbys receive a letter from Tom and desire to buy him back. Tom spends a happy two years with the St. Clares. Eva acquires a cough, and Tom, who has grown close to her, is concerned. St. Clare gets in a morals argument with his brother over the proper treatment of slaves. Eva grows more ill and innocently uses her impending death to reform Topsy and exact a promise from her father to free all his slaves when he dies. She dies, tragically, and then St. Clare gets caught in crossfire in a cafe and also dies before his will is reordered.
Blog Post Summary #3
ReplyDelete- In Chapter 18, Uncle Tom’s new master, St.Clare, a “careless master” (306) especially when dealing with money, which would be easy for Tom to take advantage of his carelessness. Due to Tom’s loyalty, and kindness, he does not feel obligated, and he, if anything, is willing to help St. Clare. After St. Clare is found drunk, Tom had confronted him, and lectured him on trying to take care of himself, and the body that God had given him. Miss Ophelia, ont he other hand is annoyed with the servants, who do things their own way. Prue is miserable, due to her treatment and she feels as if the world is too cruel, and there is no purpose to live, when she says “"O Lord! I wish't I 's dead!”” (318) To feel better, she admits to getting drunk, which relates to the ongoing theme of escaping reality with the use of alcohol.
- In Chapter 19, it is learned that Prue, had been whipped to death by her master, after she “got drunk again” (326). This cruelness was questioned by Miss Ophelia, who questioned the law of this behavior and treatment. St. Clare had informed Miss Ophelia that as slaves, they are considered property, and an owner can do whatever he may like with their possessions, in this case, murder their slave, Prue. Meanwhile, Tom has been “mustering up a small stock of literary attainment”(348), and began wanting to write to his wife, with the help of Eva, even though she had admitted to being afraid that she might have “forgotten”(348). This use of sad events, and allowing Tom to grow, not only in intelligence, but in hope, for a better future, by starting with informing himself with knowledge by writing.