“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” Novel by Garriet Beecher-Stowe Essay Example

Tom, and young Eva adores a devoted and honest black friend. Even Augustin's cousin, a native of the North, Lady Ophelia, respects and can always count on Tom. Only the cold and cruel Marie - the wife of Saint-Clair is not imbued with the kindness and honesty of Tom.

Two years pass. Eve is dying of consumption. Saint-Clair, who came to complete despair after the death of his daughter, and went to pour grief into a bar, receives a mortal wound with a knife there. The widow of St. Clair, Marie, after the death of her husband, sells all the slaves at auction. She is not deterred by the fact that Augustin wanted to release Tom into the wild.

Tom is bought by a slave owner from the South, Simon Legree - a cruel and despotic man. On his plantation, he squeezes everything possible out of the slaves, beats and humiliates them. Tom has cost him dearly, and Legree plans to make him an overseer, as bloodthirsty as his dogs, with which he poisons the guilty. But Tom is true to his principles: he not only does not agree to this "position", but also brings joy and goodness into the lives of completely desperate people, as far as possible under the vigilant gaze of inhuman overseers.

The elderly slave Cassie, who was once Legree's mistress, tells Tom the truth about the owner: this man is a murderer and a sadist who takes revenge on the slaves for his failed life. Cassie suggests that Tom kill Legree, take his money and run, but Tom refuses. Then Cassie makes a demonstrative escape with the young slave Emmeline, after which the

women hide in the attic of the Legree house. Enraged by Tom's unsuccessful search and defiance, Legree and his overseers, the blacks Sambo and Quimbo, beat Tom to a pulp. Later, Sambo and Quimbo, taking advantage of the owner's absence, try to revive Tom, but to no avail. Tom is found by a young George Shelby who has come to fetch him.

George manages to catch Tom only in the last minutes of his life. Young Shelby buries Tom, after which he severely beats Simon. Cassie appears several times to Simon in the form of a ghost, and Legree, unable to stand it, embarks on another drinking bout, later dying of delirium tremens.

On board the ship, George Shelby meets Cassie and Emmeline, as well as George's sister Harris, who has become Madame de Tu in France. The heroes find Harris in Canada, Cassie recognizes Eliza as her daughter, who was sold into slavery. With his sister's money, George gets an education and leaves with his family, mother-in-law and sister for Liberia. George Shelby gives freedom to all his slaves, and leaves Uncle Tom's hut as a symbol of former and obsolete slavery.