Aiken, Uncle Tom's Cabin

"Gorgeous clouds, tinted with sunlight. Eva, robed in white, is discovered on the
back of a milk-white dove, with expanded wings, as if just soaring upward. Her
hands are extended in benediction over St. Clare and Uncle Tom who are kneeling
and gazing up to her."
~Act VI, scene 7, page 133

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JenniferPrex/2009/10/different_kinds_of_freedom.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KatieLantz/2009/10/uncle_toms_cabin_ii.html

"Do you know who made you?"
Uncle Toms Cabin, Act 1 p 91

I wanted to see if I could get a blog discussion going, so I've posted some general questions about the passage. Feel free to post a response!

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KatieLantz/2009/10/the_heart_of_a_child.html

"Because it makes so many more round you to love, you know?"

Uncle Tom's Cabin, Act 1, p. 90

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/HeatherMourick/2009/10/children_are_angels.html

Children are precious

ST. CLARE:

" You would think no harm in a child's caressing a large dog even
if he was black; but a creature that can think, reason and feel, and is immortal,
you shudder at. Confess it, cousin. I know the feeling among some of you Nor-
therners well enough. Not that there is a particle of virtue in our not having it,
but custom with us does what Christianity ought to do: obliterates the feelings
of personal prejudice. You loathe them as you would a snake or a toad, yet you
are indignant at their wrongs. You would not have them abused but you don't
want to have anything to do with them yourselves. Isn't that it?" (Aiken)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeremyBarrick/2009/10/el_266_uncle_toms_cabin_cruelt.html

How shiftless!

"Eliza, my heart's full of bitterness. I can't trust in heaven."

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JamieGrace/2009/10/full_of_bitter_already.html

The Mutualism Between LIght and Dark

"CUTE:No, he lives in New York. Do you know how he made his fortin?

TOPSY:What is him fortin, hey? Is it something he wear

CUTE:Chowder, how green you are!

TOPSY:[(Indignantly.)]
Sar, I hab you to know I's not green; I's brack." (Aiken 119)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MeaganGemperlein/2009/10/comic_relief.html

How Shiftless!

"That's you Christians, all over. You'll get up a society, and get some poor missionary to spend all his days among just such heathen; but let me see one of you that would take one into your house with you, and take the labor of their conversion upon yourselves"

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KaylaLesko/2009/10/holy_exclamation_points_batman.html

Come on women, get real!
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GladysMares/2009/10/whats_wrong_with_these_people.html

Eva may give Topsy the first feeling of acceptance she has ever had.

EVA:

I feel sad for our poor people; they love me dearly, and they are all
good and kind to me. I wish, papa, they were all free!

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeredJohnston/2009/10/children_as_the_source_of_ligh.html