Rating: Summary: One of the best books I've read... Review: This is definitely a book worth reading. I have refrained from reading it previously for no real reasons, but when it was on sale at the bookstore, I decided that it was time to read it.The story is amazing. When I first heard of the book in history class, I thought that it would be a book about harsh slave masters, and how they are unfeeling and torture all their slaves. However, Stowe was able to use her book's length to her benefit. Even though during the time of it's publication, most Southerners were angry that the book misrepresented them, I feel that the book used a great amount of time showing that not all slave masters were hard drivers. It wasn't until the very end when the readers met with the harsh slave driver. The previous slave owners we'd met would have been considered the lesser of the evils. The book is a great read, sad, tragic, and feeling, while given in a very different way than I've ever read (the author will disrupt the narrative, and plead to the readers to understand the agony, then resume with the narration). All in all, I was quite please, and very moved.
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