Uncle Tom's Cabin Figurative Language

Nothing, including religion and proof, could bring the North to recognize their shameful inclusion in slavery until Stowe’s novel ignited their compassion and guilt. (Belasco 58). Stowe intentionally chose to write Uncle Tom’s Cabin with informal language and bad grammar so that her novel would be ideal to the everyday reader (Donovan 30). Since her goal was luring readers into believing that slavery was immoral, she disregarded uptight and formal style, substituting it for plain style similar to that of the Puritans (Donovan 30). In addition to evoking emotion, Stowe also worked to humanize the blacks in her story by emphasizing literacy and including crucial imagery. It was believed that forcing slaves to read the Bible would instill obedience in them, therefore for a while, it was taught to them until the slave rebellions. In another work uncovered by Hochman, A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Stowe explains how the reluctance to teach slaves to read stemmed from the fear that education would lead to well- rounded …show more content…
It was seen as a story for all ages and even in the final installment of the novel in the National Era, Stowe addressed it to all the little children (Hochman 104). T. Nelson went as far as publishing a children’s picture book form of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Hochman 104). One writer, Annie Fields, praises Stowe for being able to inspire all genders and children who had no part in the slavery era, and through emotion making them understand how vital Uncle Tom’s Cabin was to the previous era (Hochman 133). Uncle Tom’s Cabin foreshadowed the future of the prosperity in the United States and brought about a new way of reading. One commenter explains to his readers that Uncle Tom’s Cabin was read with fervor and that people were engulfed by it, staying up at all hours to read and reading it to people who did not know how; it was a national phenomenon (Hochman