basis? Whether written in a book or personally experienced, death is always representative of

something unexpressed in life. For every individual death, there may be a variety of

interpretations, but the same must be said of every individual life. Harriet Beecher Stowe's

Uncle Tom's Cabin reveals the lives and deaths of many characters. Each death in this story is

representative of a particular theme: the loss of a child, a story of redemption, the pain of a

soulless man, a repressed servant, and a symbolic Christ figure. Because each death tells a

separate story, the question of redemption and salvation is brought into the scenario. Who will

be saved? Can a life fraught with sin be redeemed? The purpose of this essay is not to name

who is saved and who is damned, but to observe how Harriet Beecher Stowe uses the curiosity

and concern for salvation and the idea that death, through empathetic feelings and sentimentalism

Being born into a barely Christian, wealthy, slave owning family, it is difficult to

understand where Eva's religious roots commenced. It

Bible and was a symbol of the undead, did finally get Cassy to pray when "[Cassy] had glided

meant to emancipate slaves and save the souls of her readers.

simple friend [Tom], the old child and the young one, felt just alike about

was Tom's innocense and knowledge that was childlike, not his entire life. Tom's duty on earth

perfect Christian and the morals he/she would represent: Steven Mintz does the same in his

human suffering, their emphasis upon personal piety and individual commitment, and their

St. Clare's role in Uncle Tom's Cabin was much different from Uncle Tom and Little Eva

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