Claire . as an example where he goes out of his way to teach someone to love and benefit others to illuminate that mindframe of separation between slaves and regular people that would enjoy things like learning to read. This comes back to her original stance on raw feeling of being human and the principles that come with that. of being human and the principles that come with that. Here we find what was taken from slaves in a time where that human characteristic was all that they had to hold onto. . Tom lives at the same home for about two years until Eva grows very ill and dies. Stowe portrays Eva's passing with a pre-death vision she explains as Eva in heaven where that outlook changes all of the characters including Tom, and Topsy’s lives, most importantly Ophelia and her prejudice against blacks. Stowe uses this imagery to show the change of heart that is brought on by the idea of the gathering of love, something in which Tom brought to the …show more content…
Claire also made a pledge to make a better him in the process, saying that he would free Tom. Unfortunately he was stabbed with the outside of a tavern before he got the chance. This is another example of how there was never a legitimate happy ending with and slavery and it showed some of stows personal views on how things should have ended turn out Inside of slavery. St. Claire's wife, shortly after his death, sold Tom to a vicious slave owner with the name of Simon Legree. Stowe uses a descriptive scene of Legree telling Tom to beat his fellow slaves to show how absolutely brutal it was not only physically, but mentally the pressure that was put onto the slaves with religion. Legree was determined to crush Tom's faith in God, and it almost did until Tom met Cassie who had had a rough life and ultimately lead to Tom back to