The Analysis of Uncle Tom's Cabin

Title                 : Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Author                        : Harriet Beecher Stowe

Retold by        : Brett Thomas

Plot :

This story uses closed - plot which is explained from the beginning to the ending chronologically .

1.       Exposition

Having run up large debts , A Kentucky farmer named Mr. Shelby decided to sell two Slaves in  their house to pay all the debts to slave – trader , Haley. He signed the letter agreements with the slave -trader. The slaves that were going to be sold at that time were Uncle Tom, an old slave with a wife and children in the farm, and Harry , the young son of shelby’s maid Eliza.  Mr.Shelby was a kind person and always treat the servants in a good way but at that time He was so confused about his debts so he decided to sell his two slaves. Mr.Shelby told his wife about his decision to sell the slaves .She was shock and angry hearing it because  She had promised Eliza that She would never sell her slave and she would never seperate the son from the mother .

2.       Raising Action

Eliza overheard the conversation between Mr.Shelby and his wife about selling the  slaves . She came to Uncle Tom’s cabin and told everything she heard about selling the slaves to Uncle tom and his wife, Aunt Chloe. She warned them and tried to leave Kentucky to the north and She hoped that She would find her husband in Canada and got freedom with him there. Eliza brought her son and run towards the Ohio river the Boundary separating Kentucky from the north. She crossed the half - frozen river by jumping to one ice block to another without any footwears. She could do that because of the power of love to his son. Meanwhile , Haley the slave- trader hired a slave hunter to bring Eliza and her son back to Kentucky .Eliza and her son arrived at the big house of rich family . They took a rest a while there before the owner of the big house brought eliza and her son to a place where she could get freedom in a Quaker Community . Quakers would help Eliza to transport her to safety.

At the same time , Uncle Tom was in the boat to be transported to a slave market by The Slave – Trader , Haley. Uncle Tom Left his beloved wife and his children and also his closed friend , Mas’r George ,Shelby’s young son . On the boat , Tom met a little  white girl who was very kind to him . Her name was Eva, Evangeline St. Clare. Eva asked her father, Augustine St. Clare, to buy Uncle Tom from the slave – trader . Her father decided to buy Tom and brought Tom together with Eva to the New Orleans where Tom got new work with his new master.

3.       Climax

Up north , Eliza and George had tried to escape from the Slave Hunters , Tom Loker and Marks. Tom Loker was succeed in searching Eliza . George, eliza’s husband , Shot Tom Loker in the side and Marks run off leaving his friend . Eliza told to Her husband to bring Tom Loker to the next settlement , where he could be healed.Meanwhile , in the new orleans Tom’s new master discussed to manage his house with his older cousin , Ophelia.

After Tom had lived with St. Clare for two years , Evangeline grew very ill . She slowly weakens , and then died . Before her death , She learned about bible from Uncle Tom . She aslo gave her cutting hair to all of the servants in order to always remember her Master. Her death brought a sadness to everyone who knew her including Tom . As his promised to Eva that he would set Tom free , Augustine decided to give a freedom to the Tom . However , before he could act on his decision  ,St.Clare was dead when tried to settle a brawl . St.Clare’s wife who was cruel , Marie , Sold Tom the Cotton Plantation owner named Simon Legree. Legree was a cruel slave- owner.Legree took a strong dislike to Tom when Tom refused him to whip the fellow slave as his ordered. Tom received a severe beating . Cassy , one of the slaves in Legree’s plantation , tried to helped Tom by giving him a bottle of water. She told many things to uncle Tom that she was purchased to use as a sex slave by Legree five years ago before Tom came to the plantation.Emmeline was the young woman who replacing Cassy as a sex slave .

One day , Cassy  and Emmeline escaped from the Legree’s plantation . Legree was angry and asked his foremen to catch them but they couldn’t find them at all . Legree asked Tom where Cassy and Emmeline had gone . Tom refused to tell to him about their escaping . Legree got angry of him and whip him for many times . When Tom was near death , Mas’r George arrived with money to buy Tom back to Kentucky .Unfortunately , He was too late . Uncle Tom was already died at that time because of severe beating from Legree.

4.       Falling Action

Cassy and Emmeline took a boat towards  freedom .On the boat Cassy met George Harris’s sister , Emily de Thoux, and travel with her to Canada where cassy realized that Eliza was her long- lost daughter.  After they had arrived at Canada , They met Eliza and George and lived together with them . George had a good job and Eliza had given birth to a baby daughter. Their son Harry was doing very well at school . Emily had married with a rich man and had enough money to shared with her brother and his family. They all decided to go to France .

5.       Resolution

George Shelby returned to the Kentucky after his journey to get Tom back . He told to Aunt Chloe that he was too late because Tom had gone to a better place . Mrs. Shelby cried but Chloe made no sound . A month later George called all the servants . He would to set them all free. He brought a pile of paper , certificates which gave them of freedom . He urged them to think on Tom’s sacrifice every time they look at his cabin . He wanted all the servants to remember uncle Tom whenever they rejoiced in their  freedom and he wanted all the servants tobe as good and honest Christians as Tom was.

·         Characters in Novel of  “Uncle Tom’s Cabin “

·         Mr.Shelby                           : He was salve- Owner. He was the master of Uncle Tom in Kentucky. He was                                     ellegant man .

·         Mrs.Shelby (Emily)          : She was Mr.Shelby’s Wife .He was kind woman and she loved her all slaves                                      very much .She didn’t want to sell the slave to the slave-trader.

·         Haley                     : He was slave-trader

·         Uncle Tom                          : He was hard-working ,reliable , honest , and good slave. He was religious                                           man , he liked to help the others even he was in danger. He was chritian                                             nigger. 

·         Harry                     : He was Eliza’s son . He had brown skin .He was very handsome and Had big                                      ,dark eyes and shinny , curly black hair.

·         Eliza                       : She was a beautiful young light skinned woman .She is Harry’s mother and                                       She got married with a man named Goerge Harris . She loved her son very                                   much and she protected his child from the slave trader. She would do                                                             anything to save the Son . She had Strong , religious character.

·         George Harris    : He was kind person . He was Eliza’s husband . He was hard working . He                                              was intellegent man . He had invented a machine that made easily to clean                                  cotton.

·         Mr. Harris                            : He was cruel and Hard Slave Owner. He was the master of George Harris.

·         Aunt Chloe                         : She was Uncle Tom’s wife . She was a cook in Mr.Shelby’s House . She was                                       hard working and religious woman .

·         Mas’r George    : He was the son of Mr. Shelby. He was a kind person . He had tought Uncle                                        Tom to write a letter. He was best friend of Uncle Tom .

·         Sam                       : He was on of the servants in Shelby’s house who tried to help Eliza                                                       escaping from the slave trader , Haley.

·         Mr.Symmer                        : He was a farmer who lived near The Shelbys . He helped Eliza to climb up                                           over the grassy river bank when she wanted to escape from the slave                                                  trader.

·         Tom Loker                           : He was a big , hard looking man with a dirty , black beard and cruel eyes.                                            He hated black people . He helped Haley to catch Eliza and her son.

·         Marks                   : He was small , thin with sharp eyes and a crooked smile that showed his                                             few remaining teeth tobe yellow and brown . He was Tom loker’s friend                                       when tried to look for Eliza and her son .

·         Mr.Bird                 : He was a member of the senate in Washinton D.C , the Capital of US . He                                           was not a cold-hearted man .

·          Mrs. Bird                             : She was a very quite little lady who very rarely lost control of her feelings .                                        She hated Cruelty.

·         Cudjoe                 : He was the servant in Mr.Bird’s house.

·         John Van Trompe            : He was a man who protect a mother and child from slave-catchers. He was                                       a big man with a big heart. He had bought some lands in Ohio, gave all his                                            slaves letters of freedom and let them live and work as free people on the                                       new land.

·         Rachel                   : She was on of the Quaker women .

·         Simeon Holliday                : He was a big strongman in Quaker Coomunity.

·         Rurth                     : She was Simeon’s wife .

·         Evangeline St. Clare: She was a daughter from the wealthy St. Clare Family of New Orleans. She                                                was pretty . She had a serious look on her face as she listened to the                                                     conversations of the older people. She was kind and Loved all her servants in                                    her house.

·         St.Clare / Augustine: He was a rich man . He was Evangeline’s father . He was kind person . He                                   had bought Tom from the slave trader to become his servant in his house                                    . He loved his daughter very much . He did everything to make her daughter                                                happy.

·         Marie                    :She was Evangeline’s Mother. She was hard woman . She was cruel to her                                         servants . She hated the nigger that worked at her house .

·         Ophelia                                : She was Agustine’s older cousin . She was fourty – five years old and had                                          never married. She was a tall slim woman , neat , and tidy and always                                                     dressed in plain practical clothes. She hated laziness , wasting time and                                                       people who did things for no reason and without an aim.

·         Mammy                               : She was one of the servants in Augusitine St. Clare’s House . Evangeline                                             usually called the old woman servant with Mammy. She loved Evangeline                                            very much .

·         Phineas Fletcher              : He is one of the Quakers Comunity . He was alert and sharp eyed.

·         Dinah                    : She was a cook in the Evangeline’s House .

·         Topsy                    : She was a little servant girl in St.Clare’s House . She was not very well liked                                        by the other servant because she was always stealing things from the                                                         house.

·         Mr.Simon Legree             : He was a hard looking man with strong shoulders , a round, bald head and                                         very cruel eyes. He was the owner of a cotton plantation up the red river.

·         Emmeline                            : She was a young girl . She had been bought by Mr. Simon to use as a sex                                            slave .

·         Cassy                     : She was a woman who worked at Simon legree’s plantation. She had been                                       purchased to use a sex slaver by Simon Legree before Emmeline Came                                                 replacing her.  She was Eliza’s mother who had been seperated for along                                   time.

·         Emily de Thoux : She was George Harris’s Brother sister who had been seperated for along                                         time .

Point of View

The author used “Third person point of view” and it showed from the way the author introduce all characters by mentioning the name.

Setting

·         On a cold day in February . In small Kentcuky town .

·         In New Orleans

Theme

The Slavery and Humanity