Inner Perspective In Uncle Tom's Cabin

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In Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Stow uses various methods to give her idea.

In the process of telling the story, Stow often chooses some third persons to talk with readers directly. Sometimes the third person accuses their indifferent, sometimes mocks banter or shouts loudly, the objective is to stimulate readers accustomed to slavery numb attitude, arouse their moral conscience. For example, in chapter twelve, while the author finishes narrating the process that slavers found her baby was secretly sold and then jumped into the river, she turns into a slave owner, asked the onlooker loudly: “But, Sir, Who caused a slaver? Who should be blamed? What else do you have stronger than them? Also Stow chooses a kind of preaching to tell us the idea; she often
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Among them, in order to render Liza save the boy's courage and determination, omniscient narrator use their privileges, multi-angle narration way, Sam and Liza respectively with the narrator, the slaves themselves out of the mouths of repeatedly tells the story of Liza embrace son jumps thrilling scene of ice across the river.

This choice of inner perspective is easy to understand because an ancient writer doesn't cover all the characters. However, the choice of what kind of person to do inner perspective is a big story. The choice of stone in Uncle Tom's cabin is not entirely based on the principle of the main character or the positive person. As a whole, the focus mode of the novel focuses mainly on external focus and not much of the person's inner perspective. The narrator has an external description or a general description of a large number of characters, and his thoughts and emotions are mainly the
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First of all, there was a sharp contrast between the two, St. Clare and Reg, who were both slave-owners, but a generous, liberal-minded man who hated slavery. The other, however, was tyrannical and ruthless, in order to combat black slaves. The comparison shows that while stone strongly condemns slavery, she does not simply blame the slave owners. She knew that not all slave-owners were evil, and that the real root of sin was slavery in the social system. This reflected her deep insight into slavery and earned her southern readers. Second, for their inner perspective can make readers see the character's personality and motivation, to avoid the shape of white slave owners is too simple, shows the slave human

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