Uncle Tom's Cabin 读后感
元宵节几号-
That House, Those People
----Reading
Uncle
Tom
’
s Cabin
Slavery and Civil War remain with us as
the most disturbing issues in American
history.
Therefore,
when
mentioning
them,
we
cannot
forget
that
there
is
such
a
person who was once greeted by Abraham
Lincoln as
“
the little woman
who wrote the
book
that
made
this
great
war
”
.
This
woman
is
the
author
of
Uncle
Tom
’
s
Cabin
,
Harriet
Beecher Stowe.
Uncle
Tom
’
s
Cabin
is
one of the most famous
books in
the
world. The book is so famous, according
to the introduction written by Alfred Kazin,
that
people
are
capable
of
describing
someone
as
an
“
Uncle
Tom
”
or
a
“
Simon
Legree
”
without
remembering
that
they
have
never
read
Uncle
Tom
’
s
Cabin.
Therefore, I cannot
help reading this book to get a deep understanding
of Uncle Tom
and those American-byword
figures.
Uncle Tom, as the head figure
of the book, his main characteristics are told at
the
very
beginning
of
the
story
through
the
talk
between
two
gentlemen.
Mr.
Shelby,
Tom
‟
s
first
master,
told
the
dealer
Mr.
Haley
that
“
Tom
is
a
good,
steady,
sensible,
pious
fellow.
”
Even Tom himself
thinks that he fully had the gentle, domestic
heart
which had been a peculiar
characteristic of his unhappy race. He could run
the whole
farm of Mr. Shelby like a
clock. St. Clare, Tom
‟
s
second master,
“
handed him a
bill
without
looking
at
it,
and
pocketed
the
change
without
counting
”
(
in
Chapter
Ten).
Those examples make
Uncle Tom
‟
s capability and
honesty full of life in front of us.
Almost every slave wanted their own
freedom; however, Tom gave up any chances of
being
a
free
man.
When
people
asked
why
he
did
not
escape,
his
answer
was
that
“
master
trusted
me,
and
I
couldn
‟
< br>t
”
.
In
the
view
of
Tom,
Master
was
the
power
of
disciplining himself. As a faithful
believer in Christianity, he did not fall short of
his
master
‟
s
expectation or do anything he thought to be
ashamed. Such was Uncle Tom. I
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cannot get such an honest
and straight image out of our mind.
However, one thing of Uncle Tom which I
do not like sometimes even hate is that
he did not struggle for his life. No
matter what his masters did with him or how they
arranged him, he would grin and bear
them. I think that is one main reason of
Tom
‟
s
tragic.
On
hearing
that
he
and
Eliza
were
sold
by
their
master,
though
sorrow
and
unwilling,
Tom
refused
to
escape.
He
supported
that
escape
was
the
right
of
Eliza;
however, he said that he was not the
one to say no.
“
If I must be
sold, or all the people
on the place
and everything go to rack, why, let me be
sold
” (
In Chapter One).
With
Tom
‟
s master changing from
Shelby to Legree, I can see that Tom was also
changing.
Different
from
the
former
obeying,
he
began
to
struggle
and
do
things
according
to
his
own
view.
Tom
refused
to
beat
the
two
black
women
for
Legree.
When
Cassy
and
Emmeline
escaped
from
the
farm,
Tom
refused
to
say
anything
about it.
“I
know, Master; but I cannot tell anything. I can
die
” (
in Chapter Forty). He
even called his master
“
you poor miserable
critter
”
. It was the courage
that shocked
Legree.
Tom
showed
his
spirit
of
resist.
However,
Tom
couldn
‟
t
wait
anymore
because he was covered all over with
cuts and bruises. Everything was too late. When
George came to
“
buy
”
him and take him home, Tom put forward his last
strength to
hold
the
warm
hands
from
his
young
master
and
his
tears
ran
down
the
cheeks.
Though George called
Tom loudly and crazily,
“
a
sudden sinking fell upon Uncle Tom;
he
closed his eyes; and that mysterious and sublime
change passed over his face, that
told
the
approach
of
the
other
worlds
”
(in
Chapter
Forty
One).
Uncle
Tom
passed
away in this broken-
hearted way.
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