its * plot relates the mi*ortunes of the loyal christian slave, tom, who, deprived of familial love and affection and destined for the harsh life of plantation slavery, doesn’t rebel or curse god, but philosophically accepts his cruel fate. he could leap overboard cold river to save the drowning daughter of a wealthy white passenger who gratefully rewards the brave negro by buying him.
tom seems destined, now, to live out his life in a pleasant new orleans mansion, spending his days reading *ble aloud and singing religious hymns with the angelic little eva. but the child dies of tuberculosis, having first elicited a promise from her father to free the loyal tom. the father is killed , how*r, in a brawl before he can fulfill his pledge and his widow is forced to sell tom, who becomes the property of the heartless simon legree. he soon learns how really harsh the life of plantation can be, but he remains true to his religious training, elated by his pious acceptance of god’s will. harassed by the evil legree ,tom displays his christian charity by refusing to flog another slave .simon legree may not own tom’s soul ,but he can do as he chooses with the body, and he orders two of his slaves, sambo and quimba, to whip the unresisting tom, whose only responses to the merciless beating is a plea to stop in order that legree might save his own soul.
on his deathbed, tom charitably forgives the harsh legree. ironically, he lives long enough to witness the arrival of his former *’s son, come to redeem the family pledge by buying him back and granting his *.
the theme of uncle tom’s ca*n, for its all apparent simplicity, is representative of much of 19th century american fiction of the good man opposed by evil personified under the circumstance of slavery.
what strikes me is tom’s loyalty to his religious belief. all of us has our own belief , it plays a most important part in our life, it supports us when*r we are caught in rough conditions ,it *s us get out of the dark to see the sunrise, it teach us how to adapt ourselves to different circumstances.
life is full of ups and downs; we should hold our belief to fight against them to realize our goals!
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