Kimsour's Quarter Book Review ;)

     The book I read for this quarter is Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The genre of this book is a novelty and consists of 434 pages. In this book it gives us a view of what life was like for a slave. Its mainly revolves around a slave Uncle Tom who has a wife and kids of his own but they owed their services to his master. He somewhat had a optimistic view of life as a slave. His master, Arthur Shelby, treated them with kindness and dignity. However, Arthur soon fell into financial troubles and he had the sell some of the slaves, Uncle Tom and Harry, another slave's son. It is within this decision is where the evil mortality of slavery starts to show. Uncle Tom was eventually sold and taken to auction throughout the Mississippi river where struggles between the love and despair in his life. Meanwhile Harry and his mother Eliza escape the South made the dangerous journey to North  risking their lives running from the slaves hunters and eventually Canada.

      The author did a great job in highlighting the morality of slavery in this book. Slavery doesn't care that a child needs the love and care of their parents. Its goes to great length just to separating families, dehumanizing the slaves and sell them off like properties. This is also one of the aspect of the book that is kind of draining to me when reading this book. I would have a great day until I read the part about brutal treatment of Uncle Tom by his later master, Simon Legree. Uncle Tom's character is seen as a flat character, he is a humble and kind person in this story which partly contribute to his downfall because he did not stand up to his masters.