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Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46787.Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Uncle Tom's Cabin" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1170343506m/46787.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46787.Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Uncle Tom's Cabin</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/26242.Harriet_Beecher_Stowe">Harriet Beecher Stowe</a> 
 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17720531?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
 rating: 5 of 5 stars This is an awesome book, I will always remember it as one of the best books I’ve ever read, like Of Mice and Men, “East of Eden”. The characters are endearing. When I closed the book for the final time, I knew I would miss Eliza and Harry, Tom and little Eva, young George, and Emmeline and Cassy. Stowe spends extensive time developing each character allowing us to see how they think, speak and act in many situations. At times, this makes the book long but I didn’t mind.
 
 The narrator speaks to the directly to the reader periodically, which is interesting, that does not happen often in novels. 
 
 So what makes it so great? It is the story of personal power overcoming insurmountable odds. Cassy crafts a genius plan to make her situation better. Tom’s character is probably unrealistic in is life as a slave but I wanted to believe that someone could stand up in the face of tragedy so I kept reading. I don’t like books if the stories seem too far fetched, too unbelievable. This is the story of a group of people, some of who I named above, whose lives intertwine. They are thrown together by the curse of slavery, not because they want to become friends. Their circumstances force their relationships. The setting is pre-Civil War American, in the North and the South. I saw a unique perspective of slavery from the slave’s perspective as well as from the slave holder’s perspective, both good and evil men. 
 
 It amazes me that Stowe wrote this book in 1852 (Civil War ended in 1865), while our nation was in the midst of slavery. To speak about something after it has ended, after everyone is on your side is an easy thing, but Stowe wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” when people vehemently disagreed with her. Slaves were being killed, bought and sold; families were torn apart, while Stowe’s book became a best seller fueling the nation with controversy over the emotional issue of slavery. I’m sure there were those who wanted Stowe and her book to die. It is a courageously written book. 
 
 447 pages
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This is an awesome book, I will always remember it as one of the best books I’ve ever read, like Of Mice and Men, “East of Eden”. The characters are endearing. When I closed the book for the final time, I knew I would miss Eliza and Harry, Tom and little Eva, young George, and Emmeline and Cassy. Stowe spends extensive time developing each character allowing us to see how they think, speak and act in many situations. At times, this makes the book long but I didn’t mind.

The narrator speaks to the directly to the reader periodically, which is interesting, that does not happen often in novels.

So what makes it so great? It is the story of personal power overcoming insurmountable odds. Cassy crafts a genius plan to make her situation better. Tom’s character is probably unrealistic in is life as a slave but I wanted to believe that someone could stand up in the face of tragedy so I kept reading. I don’t like books if the stories seem too far fetched, too unbelievable. Th...more This is an awesome book, I will always remember it as one of the best books I’ve ever read, like Of Mice and Men, “East of Eden”. The characters are endearing. When I closed the book for the final time, I knew I would miss Eliza and Harry, Tom and little Eva, young George, and Emmeline and Cassy. Stowe spends extensive time developing each character allowing us to see how they think, speak and act in many situations. At times, this makes the book long but I didn’t mind.

The narrator speaks to the directly to the reader periodically, which is interesting, that does not happen often in novels.

So what makes it so great? It is the story of personal power overcoming insurmountable odds. Cassy crafts a genius plan to make her situation better. Tom’s character is probably unrealistic in is life as a slave but I wanted to believe that someone could stand up in the face of tragedy so I kept reading. I don’t like books if the stories seem too far fetched, too unbelievable. This is the story of a group of people, some of who I named above, whose lives intertwine. They are thrown together by the curse of slavery, not because they want to become friends. Their circumstances force their relationships. The setting is pre-Civil War American, in the North and the South. I saw a unique perspective of slavery from the slave’s perspective as well as from the slave holder’s perspective, both good and evil men.

It amazes me that Stowe wrote this book in 1852 (Civil War ended in 1865), while our nation was in the midst of slavery. To speak about something after it has ended, after everyone is on your side is an easy thing, but Stowe wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” when people vehemently disagreed with her. Slaves were being killed, bought and sold; families were torn apart, while Stowe’s book became a best seller fueling the nation with controversy over the emotional issue of slavery. I’m sure there were those who wanted Stowe and her book to die. It is a courageously written book.

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