Daniely Modesto
English 48A
Journal for Harriet Beecher Stowe
September 25, 2009
"The huge green fragment of ice on which she alighted pitched and creaked as her weight came on it, but she staid there not a moment. With wild cries and desperate energy she leaped to another and still another cake;--stumbling--leaping--slipping--springing upwards again!"
“After Mrs. Stowe became acclaimed, at one point she asserted she did not write Uncle Tom's Cabin; God wrote it, and she served merely as His instrument.” Harriet Beecher Stowe: “A Little Bit of a Woman” By Barbara Smith.
English 48A
Journal for Harriet Beecher Stowe
September 25, 2009
"The huge green fragment of ice on which she alighted pitched and creaked as her weight came on it, but she staid there not a moment. With wild cries and desperate energy she leaped to another and still another cake;--stumbling--leaping--slipping--springing upwards again!"
“After Mrs. Stowe became acclaimed, at one point she asserted she did not write Uncle Tom's Cabin; God wrote it, and she served merely as His instrument.” Harriet Beecher Stowe: “A Little Bit of a Woman” By Barbara Smith.
Stowe in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” creates memorable characters that represented the inhumanity of slavery and the depressing action that was taking on the whole nation. Eliza, one of the main characters in the novel, is described, as a strong woman, who runs away with her son in order to avoid their separation. Going through dangerous situations, and risking her life to escape from the south, Stowe made many unaware people understand how those people live and how maltreated they were by their slaveholders.
The book opened up the realities of slavery to the entire world. The novel was a great influence at the time because it was able to show the country, vivid images of slaves’ life in the South. Stowe showed that even “good” slaves owner, when desperate for money, can separate, and sell them. Stowe brought the moral conflict to the public, causing many people to start rethinking their moral judgments about the issue. What was before indifferent, became often more critical and closer to an end.
