Uncle Tom's Cabin Sparknotes

The book ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ mainly talks about a story about a family is bankrupt so they have no choice but to sold their favorite slave to a negro trader called Haley with the Eliza’s child Harry. When Elize heard about this, she decided to run away with her husband George because she is not willing to let the slave owners to decide their own life and death. However, uncle Tom finally killed by Legree after series of transactions. The book tells us people like Tom who is obedience to the slave owner finally get an ending of death and people who like George couple is against their fate would gain a new life.

Stowe shows the incompatibility of slavery by picturing the brutal of the negro trader Haley. Haley took Harry away by force, separated him from his mother Eliza to fulfill his own desire. The way Haley did was against the belief of the Christianity of love. He doesn’t have any human nature and doesn’t care about Eliza’s feeling as a mother. Slavery was ruthless and so do the trader, but not all

George was possessed of a handsome person and pleasing manners, and was a general favorite in the factory. However, his master was a vulgar, narrow-minded, tyrannical person and feel himself an uneasy consciousness of inferiority when compare with George. He tortured George with whip and abuses him whenever he wants to do so. Nevertheless, George sill working very hard and show his manner of tolerate. The more George tolerated, the more the master treated more brutal because he want to see George suffer pains which would make him feel better. The slavery is in the opposite side of Christianity’s ethic of tolerance. Although George was treated unfairly by his owner, he still stick to the post and finish the work perfectly which made the owner angry and punish him with more cumbersome