Resumo de Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom, George, Mr. Shelby, Little Eva, and

Simon Legree are just some of the characters in
Harriet

Beecher Stowe's pre-Civil War South novel Uncle
Tom's

Cabin. Uncle Tom's Cabin predominantly deals with
the

horror and inhumanity of slavery. Stowe strongly

expresses

that slavery destroys families and christian values.

Set in antebellum America the story follows
the

life of pious and humble slave Uncle Tom through
his

trials

and tribulations as a slave. A slave owner named
Shelby

is

forced to sell his treasured slave Uncle Tom and a

young

boy named Harry to settle his debts. Harry's
mother

can't

stand the fact of losing her son so she runs away

during

the middle of the night. Eliza and Harry are helped
by

various people and eventually end up in the Quaker

settlement Indiana. Tom who didn't flee isn't so

lucky.

Tom depends on the bible for comfort. On the way to

Haley's

plantation,Tom saves Eva St. Clare from drowning
and

her

father purchases him to show his thanks. Later on
Eva

becomes sick and senses she is going to die so she

gives

all the servants a lock of her gold hair and
implores

them

to become Christians. She insists that her father
sets

Tom

free and after her death he leans on Tom for
spiritual

guidance and support. Eva's father is fatally
wounded

when

he intervened in a drunken brawl at a bar and Tom's

chance

of freedom is gone. St. Clare's wife has Tom
auctioned

off to a yankee with a plantation down south named

Simon

Legree. Tom is beaten for refusing to whip a slave

woman,

Lucy. Cassy helps tend to Tom's wounds. Cassy
hides

with

another slave, Emmeline, in Legree's attic, trying
to

plan

an escape. Legree insists that Tom knows where
they're

hiding and beats him until he tells, but he never
does.

George, the son of Tom's first owner, makes it just
in

time

before Tom dies. After Tom's death, the young
Shelby

vows

to do whatever is within the power of one man to

abolish

slavery. He boards a steamer for Kemeets Cassy and

Emmeline, recently escaped. Through sheer
coincidence,

they

meet a Madame de Thoux on board. She is none other
then

George Harris' sister. Cassy is discovered to be

Eliza's

mother. The whole family is reunited in Canada.
Madame

de

Thoux finances George's education, and the entire
group

chooses to move to Liberia to fight slavery
practices

from

there. George Shelby returns to his mother's estate

and,

true to his promise, emancipates all his slaves.

Harriet Beecher Stowe set out to let
everyone know

exactly what was slavery and how human beings were

treated.

Stowe set out what she meant to accomplish and she
did

it

well. Uncle Tom's Cabin is extremely touching by
the

affection reader's have on Tom. Stowe wrote Uncle
Tom's

Cabin to make a point on how slavery affected
everyone

and

how bad slavery was. Stowe got her point across to
her

reader's by establishing a well-mannered, spiritual

person

like Tom and showing reader's that even bad things

happen

to "good" slaves. Especially, when Tom is beaten
and

later

dies due to the beaten he got from his slave owner

Legree.

Stowe made Uncle Tom's Cabin more realistic on
slavery

when

she uses two women speaking of the slaves and one

believing

slavery is wrong and the other believing that
slaves

are

better off slaves than they are better free because

they

have free food,shelter,etc. Stowe also states very
good in this

conversation that some slaves are better off but
not

most

slaves because most slaves have very cruel slave

owner's

and some even beat their slaves to the point of
death.

Tom'at the lady was
stating

about death and how slavery was bad. Stowe used an

example

like this because it was how most people in this
time

thought slavery was. A lot of people believed that

slaves

were a lot better off being slaves while some
believed

that

slaves needed to be free. Uncle Tom's Cabin was
written

to

show people the "dark" side of slavery and open

discussion

on slavery. By Stowe writing Uncle Tom's Cabin it

started

an uprising about slavery and people begin
discussing

it more and it later began the Civil War. Uncle
Tom's

Cabin

is very tear-jerking and heart warming.

In Conclusion, Uncle Tom's Cabin is one of
the best

books ever and expresses nothing but views on
slavery.

In

Uncle Tom's Cabin you will notice that slavery is

expressed

as an evil that must be resisted. Ignoring slavery
is

as

destructive as practicing it. Slavery is damaging
to

families by tearing them apart like Eliza and Harry
and

it

is also damaging to our christian values by making
us

believe that there is only one GOD on "their" side

meaning

whites.

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