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and interpreted this book differently there are a few primary sources that offer up perceptions of the work. One author clearly he...

simply a novel that came from her imagination, but rather one based in a great deal of fact in how slaves were treated and the con...

and achieve the goal of freedom. After Legree learns that Tom encouraged two of his slaves, Cassy and Emmeline to escape, he vows ...

the most important economic realities involving the slaves is that which involves the selling off of slaves by Shelby to less than...

March sisters, Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth. Examination of this text reveals that, in particular, Alcott stressed the transcendental per...

sends through the voices of her characters. Stowe is a master at crafting conversations and employing just the right words for he...

Hucks scheme as being "too blame simple" (323). Instead, he proposes the lengthy chore of digging Jim out, which will take about ...

examine the realities of the time and thus see the attitudes of Twain. First we see that Huck is very disturbed by the fact that J...

In five pages this paper discusses the last half of this Mark Twain novel in an analysis of the role the Tom Sawyer character play...

loves to play and loves to play hooky, desiring to have a good time. However, the adventure comes when Injun Joe becomes part of...

1852.5 Stowes portrayal of the cruelty of slavery generated "horror in the North and outrage in the South," as Southerners perceiv...

In six pages the antiabolitionist intent of Stowe's novel is compared with the African American stereotypes it was responsible for...

deals with the concepts of virtue, and with womens attempts to transcend the social and cultural mores which restricted their inde...

personal morality were simply accepted, not questioned during their lives. Because American society as a whole had become better...

quickly. It is true that in some of the Northern settlements, plantation managers preferred to use white indentured servants rathe...

to his inferior status. Tom laments, "That ar hurt me more than sellin, it did. Mebbe it might have been natural for him, but t ...

shift from a "purely propositional, intellectual theology" to an "incarnational, emotional theology, empowered women, such as Stow...

work "Uncle Toms Cabin" influenced a great many people. And, her intention was to "inspire a strong emotional reaction of indignat...

critics stated that her shift from sentimentality to gothic elements was the sign of an immature writer (and a woman), it has to b...

that matter. At one point a little boy, named Jim Crow, comes in and he tosses raisins at him and tells him to pick them up. The b...

the story opens, Tom is owned by Arthur Shelby but as the story unfolds, he is sold, where he befriends a white woman, even saving...

were incapable of having the same feelings, the same needs, the same emotional attachments to loved ones that white people maintai...

(Dukes 24). Some have said that the meeting, and the book, had influenced Lincoln in his making his Gettysburg address (24). Indee...

for the institution so melodramatically described"(Anonymous 1094). The storys popularity was such that, when introduced to Stowe...

In five pages this American literary classic is presented in an overview. There are no other sources listed....

has weakened him, we cannot be sure - certainly he could be the metaphor for the weakened and suffering male of the South. He is ...

In five pages this report discusses the importance of struggle in these nineteenth century American literary masterworks that feat...

fair average kind of man, goodnatured and kindly, and disposed to easy indulgence of those around him, and there had never been a ...

In five pages this paper discusses how stereotypes are emphasized while appearing to eliminate them in these works by Stowe and Ta...

origin of the mysterious voices turned out to have a quite natural explanation, but there is nothing particularly comforting in th...