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Summary: It was an absolutely GREAT BOOK!!!!!!!!!
Review: I read this book with a group of other eigth graders at my school this spring. At first I was very skeptical because I thought that it would just be another boring history book. It turned out to be one of the best books I have read. I never quite understood slavery or living in the time of slavery, until I read this book. I would recommend it for anyone who enjoys reading and likes to read GREAT historical fiction books, of a unique variety.
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Summary: A great book
Review: I have heard of this book growing up though I never took the liberty of reading it upon myself until recently. I'm very glad that I have. I can't say that I have read a book quite like this, and I read a lot. I personally am one to search for good in the world in all that I do, as I feel without good there is nothing. This book is good. It describes the feelings and opinions of the people during the times of slavery, both Northern and Southern white, and the slaves themselves. The characters are great, from the christlike Evangeline to the devil sold soul Legree. And the messages of the book are so simple, as the messages of the Bible itself. If you are one with a good heart and an open mind, this will touch your heart and influence your life as it has mine.
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Summary: Ugh. Just ugh.
Review: Well, reading it all in one weekend may not have been the brightest move of my life. Still, this book was a hideous experience. Once you get past the first hundred and fifty pages the plot picks up enough to give the sheer boredom a minor respite, but the characters are about as flat as anything imaginable. Little Eva in particular I was ready to strangle, with hair or without, by the time she up and died. It's historically interesting as a spark to abolitionism and to the beginning of the Civil War, but as a novel it's dreadful. I would warn you not to read it, but you probably have already or will soon for a U.S. history class, in which case please accept my deepest condolences.
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Summary: Forget what you've heard, and read this book!
Review: Having just completed this book, I am astounded--both by its(underserved) racist reputation and its sheer force. No doubt, Stowe was unable to write free of the influence of her own racism. But, this book deserves to be read--especially now, at this time of year, when Christians celebrate Easter and Jews Passover. Personally, it has given me an idea, in as much as a white woman living in 1999 may have, of the pure montstrosity of slavery. As a Jew, I am gratful to have finished this book in time for my Passover Seder. I do not think I will ever think of the Exodus story in the same way again. I think the entire country should be reading and discusing this amazing book. I'll be talking about it at my Seder. I would welcome e-mail from other readers. Maybe we can start a campaign to have Oprah choose the book as one of her book club selections.
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Summary: An important learning experience on the system of slavery.
Review: This novel portrays the unjust and cruel accounts of slavery through the lives of some very unique characters. The reader goes through some vauable life experiences with each one of the characters to see how slavery affects them personally. By doing this,Stowe, makes the reader aware of the effects that slavery can have ona human race dealing with the themes of family seperation,motherhood, religion and social cruelty. This easy-read novel provides a valuable learning experience for the reader on the instituion of slavery. I would recommend it to students from ninth grade up to adults who are willing to become educated in a vivid way on this topic.
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Summary: A powerful novel of one influential woman's view of slavery.
Review: Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, is an intriguing, influential, and enlightening novel. This novel truly radiates the unfairness and injustice of slavery.The characters are very important to the theme and ideas of the novel. Most all of them, especially the main charcter, Uncle Tom, reaches moral reconciliation or a spiritual reassessment, at one point in their lives. Stowe's purpose and ideas presented in this novel inform the readers that slavery is wrong and immoral. Stowe's novel leaves us with a lasting impression, and the idea that God is the only one who can truly make right, the wrong of slavery.
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Summary: IT'S THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!
Review: My name's Julia Greenberg I am in 4th grade and I am a good reader. If I were not a good reader I would not understand the book, THANKFULLY i'm a good reader! This book was my very favorite book! I would recomend this book for 15 or over ages, because some words are HARD for younger ages( unless your an advanced reader!
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Summary: Things I learned from Uncle Tom's Cabin
Review: 1. SLAVERY WASN'T SO BAD AFTER ALL. I was surprised to find out that this book supported slavery. Of course, you have to wade through the melodrama and Christian speechifying (which is to say about 95% of the book's content) to get at Ms. Stowe's thesis, but once you do it becomes clear. To Ms. Stowe, slavery and capitalism are just different manifestations of evil human greed (St. Clare's speech on pp 239-241, chapter 19). It's good news to old slavers who could whip their charges to death, to be compared to Rockafellers, Carnegies, and Bill Gates. Ms. Stowe deems many factors that separate capitalism and slavery to be irrelevant. The fact that under capitalism families weren't separated is irrelevant. The fact that people could emigrate freely is also irrelevant. The fact that people were not forced off their farms and into the cities is irrelevant. The fact that proletariat, even in Ms. Stowe's day, were protected by labor laws is irrelevant. The fact that life expectancy increased vis à vis the pastoral lifestyle is irrelevant. The fact that the proletariat were not chosen for racist reasons is irrelevant. The fact that a worker could become an entrepreneur and eventually a capitalist is also irrelevant. 2. CHRISTIANITY DOESN'T CONDEMN SLAVERY. Ms. Stowe does a fine job (inadvertently) of showing that Christianity contains doctrine that supports slavery, and no doctrine that outright condemns it. 3. AMERICA IS FOR AMERICAN INDIANS. Ms. Stowe states at the end of chapter 43 that Topsy, after receiving a decent Christian upbringing, became a teacher in "her own country" -- Africa. Ms. Stowe believes that Africa is Topsy's country because she is descended from Africans, and conversely that the United States is not Topsy's country. Of course, if one were to apply the same logic to everyone in the U.S., only native Americans would pass the test.
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Summary: A miserably failed allegory
Review: Slavery was ugly. We need to know that. But not the way Stowe writes, I felt like I couldn't bear another page. Unbelievably flat characters in an unbelievably flat setting. Stowe wrote sophomorically about a place she had never been, and instead of creating a good book about the horrors and issues of slavery, she wrote characters who were exaggerated caricatures, from Eliza to Uncle Tom to Simon Legree. Little Eva? Please. I didn't shed a tear. Maybe it worked as propaganda then but I've read much better since.
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Summary: One of the Greatest Productions of the Human Mind
Review: Tolstoy said that, I didn't. And I don't give stars away lightly. This book is a real humdinger! A sort of primer on slavery in the modern age with a lot of Christian moralizing thrown in, the book is nonetheless powerful, at least as involving and occasionally as violent as "Wuthering Heights," and every bit as unrelenting. Besides a ripping good story, what can today's reader find? A haunting case made for never assuming you are in the right. Just look at all those people back then who said slavery was a natural thing. How wrong they were. That much is obvious to us now. But what about today's controversies? To future generations how obviously wrong can we be (1) about abortion, (2) about Clinton's impeachment, or (3, my favorite) how we are turning our back on injustices in Rwanda, Kosovo, and Chechniya. What will history say about us if we turn out to be on the wrong side of any of these issues? Oh, and please meet the real Uncle Tom -- what nobility, and not a shuffle in sight. And find out where "shiftless" really came from. Another reader suggested this book be required reading for all American citizens. Really not a bad idea...
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