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第一篇：汤姆4

《汤姆·索亚历险记》第四章 有感

我又接着读了《汤姆·索亚历险记》的第四章，这本书实在是太有意思了，第四章的大概内容是这样的……

早上，汤姆被表姐诱惑着背了一遍《圣经》，之后又去洗脸，调皮的汤姆，只是把脸洗洗，脖子还是脏兮兮的，表姐重新把汤姆拉大到脸盆前帮他收拾，汤姆利用10几分钟，换了一堆各种颜色的纸才进去，他发现他喜欢的那个女孩也在那里，就开始发了疯的表现自己，这时他突然站起来，拿着9张黄票、9张红票、10张蓝票，走到了华尔特先生面前，请求得到一本《圣经》，于是汤姆得到了一本《圣经》并跟贵宾们坐在了一起。

汤姆是一个：可爱、勇敢的男孩。

第二篇：汤姆读书

《汤姆索亚历险记》读书竞赛

姓名：_____________得分_____________

一、选择题（50分）

1、汤姆是个聪明爱动的孩子，在他身上集中体现了智慧、计谋、正义、勇敢乃至领导等诸多才能。他是一个多重角色的集合，他（）

A足智多谋，没有同情心，B对现实环境持赞同态度，C一心要冲出桎梏，过行侠仗义的生活。D安于现状，逆来顺受。

2、小说塑造的汤姆•索亚是个有血有肉，栩栩如生的人物形象。在姨妈眼里，他是个（）。

A顽童，调皮捣蛋 B足智多谋的人C一心要冲出桎梏的绿林好汉D有理想有抱负的形象。

3.汤姆和去坟地“试验”用死猫治疣子的方法时，意外地遇上了一场谋杀案——去盗尸三个人发生争执，一怒之下，（）把大夫杀了，A印第安人乔B哈克C酒鬼波特D罗宾逊

4、汤姆和哈克偷偷地潜入到岩洞中，并根据他们偷听到的关于“二号”的描述，找到了一个宝箱——里面有（）元！发现宝藏的他们成了大富翁。A一万八千余B十万两千余C两万一千余D一万两千余

5、《汤姆•索亚历险记》这部长篇小说是（）所有作品中最富有代表性的作品之一，也是拥有最广泛读者的作品之一。

A莫泊桑B马克•吐温C哈克贝恩D契诃夫

6、小说情节紧凑，而且含义深刻。小说通过汤姆生活中一系列情节，批判了资产阶级儿童教育的清规戒律。你赞同这种观点吗？（）

A赞同B不赞同C无法判断

7、小说的时代在（），写的虽是圣彼得堡小镇，但该镇某种程度上可以说是当时美国社会的缩影。

A南北战争前B南北战争前C跨越南北战争前后

8、故事发生在19世纪上半叶（）畔的一个普通小镇上。

A伏尔加河B圣劳伦斯河C多瑙河D密西西比河

9、一天，汤姆见到了可爱的姑娘蓓姬•撒切尔，她是（）的女儿。汤姆一见到她就对她展开了攻势。

A撒切尔市长B撒切尔法官C撒切尔律师D撒切尔医生

10、汤姆快发现她（蓓姬）脸通红，来回走个不停，四处张望，她叹了一口气，闷闷不乐地看着汤姆，见他只和（）一人讲话，不理睬别的人。她立即感到极度悲伤，变得烦躁不安。

A艾美•劳伦斯B玛丽•奥斯汀C格雷赛•米勒

11、“夏日温和的气息安逸的静谧花朵的芬芳蜜蜂的低语---这一切都让人昏昏欲睡,她手中编织着,不由打起了盹,因为她除了一只猫没有别的伴侣,这猫也在她的腿上睡着了。”这段景物描写作用理解不正确的是：（）

A突出了农庄的静谧、人们的激动,B交代了故事发生的背景,C为下文写波利姨妈的表扬、汤姆的逃跑作铺垫。

12、“太阳在平静的世界上升起,照耀在这个宁静的村庄上,像是在祝福它。”这段话渲染了一种（）的氛围,为下文写颁奖提供了特定的环境。A轻松、愉悦B凄凉、冷寂C平淡、肃穆

13、“哎呀,没想到！竟然变了个人似的。汤姆,只要你专心,还是能成大器的。” “可我不能不说,你就是难得专心。好啦,去玩吧不过,要早点回来,要不然,我非狠狠揍你不可。”写出波莉（）的个性。

A富有爱心、精明B富有同情心、善良C富有责任心、凶狠

14|、“他从地上拣了根草,扬起脑袋,把草杆支在鼻子上,脑袋上来回移动,设法不让草倒下。”这段文字主要采用（）描写，突出了汤姆机灵、聪明、好表现、用心良苦的性格特征

A动作B细节C侧面

15、十九世纪后期的世界文坛可谓是异彩纷呈，涌现了许多文学大师，请选出这些大师与国籍对应正确的一组：（）

A法国的左拉、莫泊桑，B英国的哈代、契诃夫C 美国的马克•吐温、雨果。16|、《汤姆•索亚历险记》是十九世纪七十年代创作的一部重要作品。小说的中心内容是写汤姆•索亚因不能忍受周枯燥乏味的生活，同自己的朋友出去“冒险”的故事。八年以后，作者发表了这部小说姊妹篇（）

A《小鲤鱼历险记 》B《蓓姬•撒切尔历险记》C《哈克贝利•费恩历险记》

17、杜宾斯先生手中的教鞭和戒尺现在很少闲着，至少对那些年龄较小的同学可以这么说。只有()才不挨打。

A最大的男孩子和18到20岁的年轻姑娘B最大的女孩子和18到20岁的男孩子C最大的男孩子和14到18岁的年轻姑娘

18、下列不属于在第十四章中和汤姆踏上杰克逊岛体验海盗生活的人是（）A蓓姬•撒切尔B乔哈泼C哈克贝利

19、下列作品不属于《汤姆•索亚历险记》的作者的是（）

A《哈克贝利•费恩历险记》B 《竞选州长》C《柔弱的人》

20、汤姆和贝基在野餐时走进了一个山洞，被困在里面。他们在山洞里再一次遇见了（）。村民费尽周折救出汤姆和贝基之后封死了山洞。恶人（）死在山洞里了得到了应有的报应。

A酒鬼波特B印第安•乔C罗宾逊

21|、是谁撕坏了教授解剖学书里的彩色插页——人体图？（）

A艾美•劳伦斯B蓓姬•撒切尔C格雷赛•米勒

22、汤姆和哈克去一个鬼屋“寻找海盗埋藏的财宝”的时候，发现乔装的印第安人乔和一个同伙在鬼屋中找到了一部分财宝,并且偷听到有一个“二号”----指（）A某个旅馆的房间号码B另一个藏宝藏的地方C海盗中的副首领

23、“主日学校”指的是（）

A教会办的双休日学校B又叫“星期日学校” C教会办的每月1日的集会

24、对小说主题理解错误的一项是：（）

A对美国虚伪庸俗的社会习俗进行了讽刺

B对伪善的宗教仪式和刻板陈腐的学校教育和批判

C以平实的笔调描写了少年儿童遵规守纪的心灵。

25、汤姆•索亚是个调皮的孩子，他和同父异母的弟弟（）一起接受姨妈波莉的监护。

A、哈克B乔哈泼C锡特

二、填空题（15分）

1、“汤姆的姨妈罚汤姆干一件事,汤姆却把这件事当作快乐游戏引诱小朋友为他干,并交换得到了许多小朋友的苹果,风筝,铜门把手,石头弹子,鞭炮,小铁兵,刀把……” 这件事指的是:_________________________________

2、啊呀,这女孩长得可真漂亮,一双可爱的蓝眼睛上闪动着长长的睫毛,一对金黄色头发编成的长辫子在身后晃荡,白色的衬衫扎在宽松的绣花长裤里,显得格外整洁动人.我们刚刚在战场上获得大胜的大将军汤姆心想,像这样的美人,一定属于我这样的英雄.这段话描写的人是谁 ___________________________

3、汤姆背不出《圣经》,但他却想出一个办法从校长那里得到了一本《圣经》,他的办是:______________________________________________________

4、“他经常穿着大人丢掉不要的破衣烂衫,全身一年四季都在开花,衣服上绽开的破布条随着他的蹦蹦跳跳而飘舞.他头上戴着一个很大的破帽子,一块弯月亮样的帽边搭拉下来遮住了半边脸,肥大的上衣几乎拖到脚跟,裤子只一根背带挎在肩上,另一根背带不知哪里去了,裤裆像个大口袋吊在两腿之间,一只裤脚卷着,还有一只毛了边的裤脚拖到地上,走一步带起一阵灰尘.” 这段话描写的人是谁 _______________________________

5、汤姆去上学,看见课室坐着新来的美丽女孩贝奇·萨契尔,他想坐到贝奇身边,故意老实对老师说他迟到前与流浪汉________________________在一起.6、暑假里,汤姆希望改掉自己的一些不良习气,加入了小镇上”____________”着个组织,并得到一条绶带,但汤姆后来退出了.7、汤姆和__________________在鬼屋寻宝时,发现了杀人犯___________和一个装聋作哑的西班牙人,并得知他们获得了一袋金币.8、印第安·乔要报复_____________________,被_______________发现跟踪,他赶紧报告威尔士,威尔士带两个儿子持枪抓捕,但印第安·乔逃跑了.9、郊游时汤姆和贝奇困在___________________溶洞里,在洞中发现印江·乔埃也躲了进来,汤姆和贝奇从洞中出来后,贝奇的父亲用铁门把洞口封了起来,最后印第安·乔的下场是:________________________________

10、小说中的“好孩子”“模范儿童”是；圣比得堡上公认的野孩子是_________________小说中的酒鬼是_______________。

三、简答题（35分）

1、小教堂里全镇的善男信女正在进行着虔诚的祷告和庄严的布道，忽然有一只狗发疯似的跑了起来，这件事和汤姆有什么关系吗？(7分)

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2、汤姆早年失去双亲，被寄养在姨妈那里。在姨妈眼中，他是一个淘气、捣蛋的孩子。在学校也是一个令老师头疼的问题儿童。对他离家出走历险，从你的角度上讲你赞同吗？请多角度的列举理由。（50字左右）(7分)

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3、对汤姆，你最欣赏什么？请结合《洞中历险》这个情节，联系自己的实际讲讲理由。(7分)

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4、你觉得汤姆是一个什么样的人？你喜欢他吗？为什么(7分)

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5、你觉得马克.吐温为什么要塑造汤姆这样一个艺术形象呢?(7分)

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

小说中的“好孩子”“模范儿童”是杰夫撒切尔；圣比得堡上公认的野孩子是哈克贝利费恩，他后来被寡妇收养。小说中的酒鬼是莫夫波特。

2、当希德打破糖罐后，汤姆是怎么想的？但是结果又是怎样的？

答：汤姆非常高兴，他急切的想看到希德吃苦头。结果是汤姆被打翻在地，波莉姨妈以为糖罐是汤姆打碎的。

5、小教堂里全镇的善男信女正在进行着虔诚的祷告和庄严的布道，忽然有一只狗发疯似的跑了起来，这件事和汤姆有什么关系吗？

答：汤姆带来的一个宝贝一只大钳甲虫夹住了狗的屁股，狗痛得到处疯跑。

11、汤姆早年失去双亲，被寄养在姨妈那里。在姨妈眼中，他是一个淘气、捣蛋的孩子。在学校也是一个令老师头疼的问题儿童。对他离家出走历险，从你的角度上讲你赞同吗？请多角度的列举理由。（50字左右）

（仅作参考）：对汤姆离家出走冒险我不赞同。尽管汤姆有许多令人钦佩的优点，但像他在生活中一遇到困难就出走，这这种人生态度是不可取的；况且社会纷繁复杂，随便走出去很容易误入歧途或生命没有保障，这样既误掉自己，也给家庭带来哀痛。

12、对汤姆，你最欣赏什么？请结合《洞中历险》这个情节，联系自己的实际讲讲理由。

例：我最欣赏的是他和蓓姬在洞中历险时坚定勇敢友爱的精神。当他面临着黑暗、孤独、饥饿的痛苦和死亡、恐怖的威胁的困境时，没有绝望、等待命运的安排，而是积极与困难抗争，对脱离困境充满了信心，并不断安慰、鼓励、关心蓓姬，一个孩子做到这一点，实在让人钦佩。

13、你觉得汤姆是一个什么样的人？你喜欢他吗？为什么

参考答案：生性顽皮，喜欢“恶作剧”，但心地善良，乐于助人（例如《洞中历险》，他很少想到自己的安危，而是处处为蓓姬着想。身上仅有的一块面包自己不吃，让给她吃。最后正由于他的勇敢机智，才能从洞中脱险；他富晕幻想，敢于冒险，具有反抗精神；他是一个成长的孩子。

15、你觉得马克.吐温为什么要塑造汤姆这样一个艺术形象呢?

答：马克·吐温从小缺少关爱，他对儿童的健康成长特别关心，他塑造汤姆·索亚这个形象，用意有二：一是为了表现自己对童年生活的深刻怀念；二是为了引起社会对“顽童”的关注，启发人们如何给孩子们一个宽松的教育环境，如何让孩子们健康成长。

答案 A BA D CAC A C CA B B A A C C A C

4刷墙

5艾美·劳伦斯

7找别人换票（十张黄票可以换得校长的一本圣经）

8哈克贝利·费恩

9哈克贝利·费恩

13少年节制会

15哈克贝利·费恩 印第安·乔

16.汤姆，汤姆和哈克

17卡第夫山 淹死（人们后来在渡口附近的河里发现了那个“衣衫褴褛”的人的尸体，他也许是想逃跑，结果却被淹死了）

第三篇：汤姆交流会

《汤姆叔叔的小屋》读书成果展示

焦作市东环小学 麻海娥

五月份，我和孩子们一起阅读了斯托夫人的成名之作《汤姆叔叔的小屋》这本书，为人正直、心地善良、笃信宗教的汤姆叔叔；有勇有谋、聪明好学的混血奴隶乔治；唯利是图、冷酷无情的奴隶贩子黑利；人性泯灭、天良丧尽的雷格里；有正义感、但随波逐流的圣克莱尔等栩栩如生的人物给我们留下了深刻的印象。每天午读时间，孩子们总能静静地品味书香，走进汤姆叔叔的内心世界，去感受人间的真善美，假丑恶。给心灵一份宁静。

在小书虫文学社团活动时，我们召开了读书交流会，孩子们交流书中最喜欢的人物和故事。有的孩子说最喜欢汤姆的诚实、正直、善良，能够经受住一切的考验，满怀爱心，把爱的温暖传递给身边的每一个人。有的孩子说喜欢伊娃，那个被当做天使的小姑娘。她出生的目的也许就是为了带给大家欢乐和爱，也许只是为了告诉我们什么是爱，教会我们如何去爱，她是上帝派来的使者，将爱植入每一个人的心灵，她以极大的热忱爱着周围的每一个人，不分彼此，不分敌我。善良的父亲、可怜的汤姆、无理的母亲、艰苦的奶娘。在她旅程结束前的那一刻，她说：“我看见了爱——欢乐——宁静——平安。”她的爱，从生命萌芽的伊始到结束的刹那得到永生。有的孩子说托普西给他们留下了深刻的印：，他是黑人里最黑的了，一双圆圆的明亮的眼睛像玻璃珠子一样闪闪发光，外貌有点怪，脸上的表情是精明与狡吉的奇妙组合，像个小妖精似的。她爱偷东西，偷了之后还撒谎，摆出一副无辜的表情；她品行不端，对所有惹她的人实施报复，恶作剧；她会趁着主人出去，疯闹几个小时，把家里弄得乱七八糟。她的主人想尽了一切办法惩罚她，教育她，试图改变她的不良习惯，但没有用，这只是因为没有爱！想想吧！这原本可爱的孩子，一生下来就沦为奴隶，她的一切只属于他们的主人，那些所谓主宰着她命运的主人。她从小就在奴隶主的打骂中成长，令她养成了说谎、偷东西的坏习惯，把她原来那美好、纯洁的心灵玷污了。在这种毫无尊严，经历着骨肉分离，整天遭受鞭打的情况下，怎么才能拥有高尚的品德和坚定的信仰呢？只有纯洁，美好，无私的爱才能拯救她的心灵！当天使般的伊娃对她说爱她的时候，托普西的眼睛里蒙上了泪水，她的心灵受到了一缕爱的阳光。果然，托普西以后变好了，她努力争取关爱别人。这是打骂，说教永远达不到的效果，充满爱的一句话超越了一切！这就是爱的力量！《汤姆叔叔的小屋》这本书的字里行间都充满了爱，这种爱的力量传递给每一个孩子，在他们身上播种爱的种子，让爱在我班孩子的心里开花结果。

孩子们之所以喜欢《汤姆叔叔的小屋》这本书，就是作者博爱的情怀，让读者感受到：爱是无上的，爱是没有区别的，爱是不分大小的。

我们在这次读书活动中，还进行了读书笔记比赛，读书小报比赛，孩子们制作了一张张精美的读书小报，笔墨飘香，经典育人。书给孩子们带来了无穷的智慧，也启迪了他们的心灵。

第四篇：小兔汤姆读后感

最近小徐爱上了小兔汤姆的系列套书，每天都要牛妈给他讲几本，里面的故事情节都是日常生活中发生的事儿，小徐也特喜欢把故事里的情节应用到生活中来，小兔汤姆读后感。

《汤姆挨罚》——某日，小徐在幼儿园玩玩具，突然站起来跑到一个小朋友那里就是一脚把玩具踢倒，牛妈刚想发怒，没想到小徐转过来跟牛妈说要挨罚，牛妈只能好无语的把小徐叫到王老师那里去挨罚，并跟老师讲的大概的原因，老师哭笑不得的给小徐说教去啦，貌似小徐还挺高兴，读后感《小兔汤姆读后感》。

《汤姆做噩梦》——每晚睡觉小徐都要喊爸爸妈妈救命，会不会有巫师过来抓我啊、窗户那里有魔鬼、我听到什么声音······结果搞得分房睡觉的计划泡汤，每晚小徐都一惊一诈的，搞得牛妈慎的慌，牛妈心想以后老徐出差怎么办，还不得让小徐给吓死啊。

《汤姆躲猫猫》——这个是小徐最爱的书之一，每天都要讲一次，每次坐地铁都要去看看隧道，自言自语的说里面会不会有抓小孩的巫师啊，妈妈我好想去隧道里面看看。

第五篇：汤姆叔叔读后感

The power of love

----“ Uncle Tom's cabin, ”Book

Some time ago, I read a person's fame Khvostov of as “Uncle Tom's cabin.” Integrity, good-natured, religious Uncle Tom;prudent, smart, studious Mestizo slave George;inexcusable ruthless slave traders Hailey;destroys human nature, conscience ruined the alegre;a sense of justice, but drift, such as the St.Clair lifelike characters left me a deep impression on him.What made me the most unforgettable is the smart and lively but wild full, and later transferred teach self-esteem a slave girlTOM love.TOM blacks had the most black, a pair of round bright eyes as sparkling glass beads, like, look a bit strange face is a shrewd and crafty Kyrgyzstan wonderful combinations, like a goblin-like.She loves to steal, stealing after lie, put an innocent expression;her misbehavior, all making her revenge, hoaxes;she would take advantage of the master out, crazy couple of hours to make his home mess.Her owner exhausted all ways to punish her, education, she tried to change her bad habits, but to no avail, this is only because there is no love!Think about it!This was lovely child, born into slavery, she belonged to them all the only masters of the so-called masters of her fate.Her childhood on his master's scolding to grow up, so she formed the habit of lying, bad habit of stealing things, and that she was beautiful, tarnished the purity of heart.In this there is no dignity, experiencing being separated from being whipped all day circumstances, how can we have a noble moral character and firm in faith? Only pure, beautiful, selfless love can save her soul!When the angelic Eva to her love of her time,TOM eyes cast the tears that her heart has been ray of sunshine of love.Sure enough, after the changeTOM Well, her efforts to care for others.This is the punishment, not preaching Forever effect, full of love beyond all words!This is the power of love!

In our lives, there are many like TOM as children.Their bad behavior, there is no love, will not listen to reason, then do not hate him, to understand with love, tolerance, stripped away a layer of green shoots yellow things, with love to the hearts of probation numb.We should always remember;the power of love is enormous, and the supreme!“Uncle Tom's cabin” This masterpiece has been published in 150 years, it has been able to make today is still deeply moved by readers, but also because the author in the book preached brotherhood and humanity in the disappearance of slavery today has been the eternal pursuit of mankind.中文译文：爱的力量

————《汤姆叔叔的小屋》读后感

前些日子，我拜读了斯托夫人的成名之作《汤姆叔叔的小屋》。为人正直、心地善良、笃信宗教的汤姆叔叔；有勇有谋、聪明好学的混血奴隶乔治；唯利是图、冷酷无情的奴隶贩子黑利；人性泯灭、天良丧尽的雷格里；有正义感、但随波逐流的圣克莱尔等栩栩如生的人物给我留下了深刻的印象。但使我最难以忘怀的是聪明活泼但野性十足，后来被调教得自尊爱人得黑奴小姑娘托普西。

托普西是黑人里最黑得了，一双圆圆的明亮的眼睛像玻璃珠子一样闪闪发光，外貌有点怪，脸上的表情是精明与狡吉的奇妙组合，像个小妖精似的。她爱偷东西，偷了之后还撒谎，摆出一副无辜的表情；她品行不端，对所有惹她的人实施报复，恶作剧；她会趁着主人出去，疯闹几个小时，把家里弄得乱七八糟。她的主人想尽了一切办法惩罚她，教育她，试图改变她的不良习惯，但没有用，这只是因为没有爱！

想想吧！这原本可爱的孩子，一生下来就沦为奴隶，她的一切只属于他们的主人，那些所谓主宰着她命运的主人。她从小就在奴隶主的打骂中成长，令她养成了说谎、偷东西的坏习惯，把她原来那美好、纯洁的心灵玷污了。在这种毫无尊严，经历着骨肉分离，整天遭受鞭打的情况下，怎么才能拥有高尚的品德和坚定的信仰呢？只有纯洁，美好，无私的爱才能拯救她的心灵！当天使般的伊娃对她说爱她的时候，托普西的眼睛里蒙上了泪水，她的心灵受到了一缕爱的阳光。果然，托普西以后变好了，她努力争取关爱别人。这是打骂，说教永远达不到的效果，充满爱的一句话超越了一切！这就是爱的力量！

在我们的生活中，也有许多像托普西一样的孩子。他们品行不良，没有爱心，不可理喻，那么千万不要厌恶他，用爱去理解，宽容，剥去绿色嫩芽外的一层枯黄的东西，用爱来感化麻木的心灵。要永远记住；爱的力量是巨大的，至高无上的！《汤姆叔叔的小屋》这本名著出版至今已有一百五十多年了，它之所以能在今天依然使读者们深深感动，也是因为作者在书中宣扬的博爱与人道在奴隶制消失的今天已然是人类永恒的追求。

My first reaction to this book is that it was based much more on religion than I had imagined it to be.As I expected, Stowe's main purpose of the book was to nakedly expose the institution of slavery to America and the rest of the world with the hopes that something would be done about it.To achieve this purpose, she showed us individual instances of slavery in a country that prided itself on its Christianity and its laws protecting freedom.She showed us how absurd slavery is “beneath the shadow of American laws and the shadow of the cross of Christ.”

I was also surprised at the various kinds of relationships between whites and blacks of the South.We learn that not all whites were bad and not all blacks were good, but that there were quite a mixture of characters and relationships.That was a strength of the book.It's not a melodrama, but shows an evil institution which allows both good and evil and all those in between to exist under it, and how this institution affects the individuals.Legree's plantation, for instance, corrupted anyone who came there.But the reader understands that it is the system that allows this which is the root of the problem, and that, by the way is a North/South problem, not just a Southern problem.She specifically calls on the North at the end of the book to ask themselves if they can live with the institution of slavery in their country and still call themselves Christians.A wise move.One of the most memorble characters was, of course, Eva.Stowe was able to give her a true, simple, child's voice which spoke unadulterated truth about the relations and happenings around her: “Poor old Prue's child was all that she had,--and yet she had to hear it crying, and she couldn't help it!Papa, these poor creatures love their children as much as you do me.O!do something for them!There's poor Mammy loves her children;'ve seen her cry when she talked about them.And Tom loves his children;and it's dreadful, papa, that such things are happening, all the time!”

You can't help but say, “Oh, my god, she's right you know!” Eva's is a powerful voice in this book.But Eva's Jesus-like gathering of the slaves before she died was a bit much in its reference to Jesus.How old was Eva? Certainly younger than to have the mature sense of death and consciousness of duty than most adults ever attain.Are these the words of a little kid:

“I sent for you all, my dear friends,” said Eva, “because I love you.I love you all;and I have something to say to you, which I want you always to remember....I am going to leave you.In a few more weeks, you will see me no more--”

The character Eva seemed to be an innocent child telling her family and the world about how she saw slavery which exposed a lot of its evils.But when she turned into a mini Jesus and preached to the slaves before her death as Jesus had preached the disciples before his death, I felt the author had given to too great of a “jump into maturity ” to be believable, unless the short life of Eva was really supposed to be a irreal miracle occurance.Eva was powerful enough as a real character who looks at slavery from innocent eyes.Her transfiguration into a holy person at the end took some of her punch away.As a Jesus-character, Tom transcends the book as a Christian hero.An interesting study would be a comparison of Tom and Jesus.One direct parallel, for instance, is the direct temptation that Legree put upon Tom to break him and make him give up his religion for Legree's “church.” It parallels to the temptation of Jesus by Satan in the desert.An important question asked throughout the book was “If we emancipate, are we willing to educate?” In her essay at the end, Stowe chides those white Americans who feel they are doing the slaves a favor by sending them back to Africa so that they can live in the supposedly free country of Liberia.She directly asks the reader, “Would you be willing to take a slave into your Christian home and educate him?” This question went right into every household in the North.A short introduction at the beginning of my book asked the question whether or not it was “good literary style” for Stowe to talk directly to the reader in the book.I don't think Stowe was trying to a create literary work of art other than would serve her purpose of communicating to the reader what exactly slavery was in America at that time.She wrote the book so that she could talk directly to the reader.It may not be good literary style but it reminds the reader that “this books for you.”

If you want to look at this book in terms of an interesting piece of literature outside its social and political context, I don't think you have much to look at.The story itself is not interesting(the escape plan of Cassy was the high point), it's packed with religious dogma at every turn(borders on Puritan literature), and you don't see hardly any character development except perhaps for Augustine, but he is so wishy washy that his conversion right before his death doesn't give you any insights into his character or human nature.This book is simply expository: it uncovers the institution of slavery.This is what makes the book riveting to read.Stowe seems to have seen quite a number of individual incidents of slavery for her to be able to write powerful and moving scenes like this one in which the slave George gives Mr.Wilson, a former humane owner, the view of slavery in America from the slave's point of view.This speech by George was the most powerful in the book:

“See here, now, Mr.Wilson,” said George, coming up and sitting himself determinately down in front of him;“look at me, now.Don't I sit before you, every way, just as much a man as you are? Look at my face,--look at my body,” and the young man drew himself up proudly;“why am I not a man, as much as anybody? Well, Mr.Wilson, hear what I can tell you.I had a father--one of your Kentucky gentlemen--who didn't think enough of me to keep me from being sold with his dogs and horses, to satisy the estate, when he died.I saw my mother put up at sheriff's sale, with her seven children.They were sold before her eyes, one by one, all to different masters;and I was the youngest.She came and kneeled down before old Mas'r, and begged him to buy her with me, that she might have at least one child with her;and he kicked her away with his heavy boot.I saw him do it;and the last that I heard was her moans and screams, when I was tied to his horse's neck, to be carried off to his place.” “Well, then?”

“My master traded with one of the men, and bought my oldest sister.She was a pious, good girl,--a member of the Baptist Church,--and as handsome as my poor mother had been.She was well brought up, and had good manners.At first, I was glad she was bought, for I had one friend near me.I was soon sorry for it.Sir, I have stood at the door and heard her whipped, when it seemed as if every blow cut into my naked heart, and I couldn't do anything to help her;and she was whipped, sir, for wanting to live a decent Christian life, such as your laws give no slave girl a right to live;and at last I saw her chained with a trader's gang, to be sent to market in Orleans,--sent there for nothing else but that,--and that's the last I know of her.Well, I grew up,--long years and years,--no father, no mother, no sister, not a living soul that cared for me more than a dog;nothing but whipping, scolding, starving.Why, sir, I've been so hungry that I have been glad to take the bones they threw to their dogs;and yet, when I was a little fellow, and laid awake whole nights and cried, it wasn't the hunger, it wasn't the whipping, I cried for.No, sir;it was for my mother and my sisters.--It was because I hand't a friend to love me on earth.I never knew what peace or comfort was.I never had a kind word spoken to me till I came to work in your factory.Mr.Wilson, you treated me well;you encouraged me to do well, and to learn to read and write, and to try to make something of myself;and God knows how grateful I am for it.Then, sir, I found my wife;you've seen her,--you know how beautiful she is.When I found she loved me, when I married her, I scarcely could believe I was alive, I was so happy;and, sir, she is as good as she is beautiful.But now what? Why, now comes my master, takes me right away from my work, and my friends, and all I like, and grinds me down into the very dirt!And why? Because, he says, I forgot who I was;he says, to teach me that I am only a nigger!After all, and last of all, he comes between me and my wife, and says I shall give her up, and live with another woman.And all this your laws give him power to do, in spite of God or man.Mr.Wilson, look at it!There isn't one of all these things, that have broken the hearts of my mother and my sister, and my wife and myself, but your laws allow, and give every man power to do in Kentucky, and none can say to him, nay!Do you call these the laws of my country? Sir, I haven't any country, any more than I have any father.But I'm going to have one.I don't want anything of your country, except to be let alone,--to go peaceably out of it;and when I get to Canada, where the laws will own me and protect me, that shall be my country, and its laws I will obey.But if any man tries to stop me, let him take care, for I am desperate.I'll fight for my liberty to the last breath I breathe.You say your fathers did it;if it was right for them, it is right for me!”

Powerful!The realization that the slaves are in a country which just recently declared itself “free from oppression” makes the system utterly absurd and contradictory.With the voice of Augustine, Stowe tells us what slavery is really:

This cursed business, accursed of God and man, what is it? Strip it of all its ornament, run it down to the root and nucleus of the whole, and what is it? Why, because my brother Quashy is ignorant and weak, and I am intelligent and strong,--because I know how, and can do it,--therefore, I may steal all he has, keep it, and give him only such and so much as suits my fancy.Whatever is too hard, to dirty, to disagreeable, for me, I may set Quashy to doing.Because I don't like work, Quashy shall work.Because the sun burns me, Quashy shall stay in the sun.Quashy shall earn the money, and I will spend it.Quashy shall lie down in every puddle, that I may walk over dry-shod.Quashy shall do my will and not his, all the days of his mortal life, and have such chance of getting to heaven, at last as I find convenient.This I take to be about what slavery is.I defy anybody on earth to read our slave-cod, as it stands in our lawy-books, and make anything else of it.Talk of the abuses of slavery!Humbug!The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

In painting the United States as the land of freedom or God's country, you cannot forget about slavery.What was it doing in the land of freedom? What was it doing in a country that prided itself in its application to the teachings of the Bible? Slavery's social and political ramifications reach us even today.It is in America's history and its roots.Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is a must read for Americans so that we do not forget.