Uncle Tom's Cabin

Throughout each of the stories we have read so far there have been clear reoccurring themes that each of the stories in common. We’ve seen the authors in each of these stories use the children in these pieces as an example or a guide for all children of the time, almost acting as the acceptable standard for children’s behavior of the specific period. These children serve as a medium through which the author can spread his or her ideals concerning morals, ethics and the qualities it takes to be a good person. In Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe does not as clearly convey this message or make an attempt to teach the American youth. This story revolving around as horrid a subject as slavery did indeed complicate things and made making the connection between this reading the others we have already covered a difficult task. But I think that within this story there is a underlying positive message, it is simply not as evident as in previous readings. Throughout or previous texts one of the reoccurring themes has been the idea that some kind strangers have been a source of support and help for our trouble children. This theme is illustrated in Uncle Tom’s Cabin through the generous and dangerous actions of the individuals risking everything in trying to help runaway slaves in their pursuit of freedom