actual readers” (1986: 813). For instance, “mothers of America” in Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Another way is to “include large numbers of more specifically defined groups in passages of direct address”
seventh child out of thirteen children. Her book Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published in 1852, which was a depiction of a live as an African American slave. The story is about Eliza and her son Harry, who runs away with her son because she overhears her masters saying that they want to sell Harry and Tom, a middle-aged man. Tom is sold to Simon Legree, who is a very vicious man. Legree abuses Tom and because Tom believes in God, Legree wants to crush Tom’s faith. At the end of the story Eliza and Harry
exuberant temperament, which in another medium he had tried to vent on stage or among high society, was deployed instead in the double form of expression spoiled by its social environment and its time: on the one hand, a rich inner life inclined to analysis spiritual, intensely dramatic or even melodramatic, and very similar (except in its concrete forms) to that of the contemporary poet Emily Dickinson; on the other hand, a diligent interest towards the building and improvement of humanity. In 1832
AP English 12 19 December 2017 A Real Hero Uncle Tom, the main character, is used to give us an oppressed heroic figure indirectly fighting slavery through his beliefs in Christianity. In Uncle Tom’s Cabin, cruelty in the form of slavery is used to show how badly slavery affected not only the enslaved men and women, but also the free men and women. During the time period in the novel, slavery was a major social and political factor. Uncle Tom is a hero. Throughout the story he continually