4.2 Humble and Full of Love
Uncle Tom’s piety also seen when he show his respectful and his lowly to everybody, although the people is youngest then him and even to white people. When Uncle Tom learning
writing from George Shelby, the son of his employer, he always show his respectful and his lowly.
“La sakes, now, does i?” said Uncle Tom, looking with a respectful,admiring air, as his young teacher flourishingly
scrawled…, he patiently re-commenced. p.24
In this novel, Stowe, said at least twice that Tom is a lowly person.
We must look some time among its crowded decks before we shall find again our humble friend Tom. p. 162There is danger that our
humble friend Tom be neglected amid the adventures of the higher born:…p. 267
Because of his humbleness, Tom feel free in sharing love to everybody. His humbleness made him has a good relation with everybody. Whoever he met , Tom always try to show his
love. When he went with Dan haley and left his family and his employer, The Shelby, he sent message to George, at that time wasn’t in home:
“I’m sorry,” said Tom, “that Mas’r George happened to be away.”… “ Give my love to Mas’r George,” he said, earnestly p.112
Tom always be ready to help the slaves although he didn’t know the slave yet, as he did ti Prue, a cake deliverer to St. Clare family.
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“I’ll carry your basket a piece, “said Tom, compassionately p.246“You seems to be sick, or in trouble, or somethin’, said Tom
p.246
His friendship with Eva, the daughter of his employer, more close day after day. Tom love Eva very much just like he love his own daughter.
He loved her as something frail and earthly, yet almost worshipped her as something heavenly and divine p. 294
He show his love when the young lady experienced a trouble, she as in pain and laid down on her bed. Nobody except Tom who always be ready beside her.
Uncle Tom was much in Eva’s room. The child suffered much from nervous restlessness, and it was a relief to her to be carried; and it
was Tom’ greatest delight to carry her little frail from in his arms, resting on a pillow, now up and down her room, now out into the
verandah; … he would sometimes walk with her under the orange- trees in garden,…p.332
Eva herself realize that Tom loved her so much, Tom always be there to help Eva. so when her father want to do the same thing like Tom do, Eva said:
“O, papa, let Tom take me. Poor fellow It pleases him; and you know it’s all he can do now, and he wants to do something.” p.332
Moreover at night, Tom didn’t sleep in his room, but he slept in veranda of Eva’s room. He kept on her there at that time that his young master need his help.
“Tom, at last, ould not sleep in his room, but lay all night in the outer verandah, ready to rouse at every call” p.334
Tom’s heart that full of love and lowly to help everyone more real when he experienced the death. When Simon Legree asked him about the two escaped slaves, Casey and Emmeline, Tom
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didn’t answered. In his deepest heart Tom determined to do everything so that both of his friends get the freedom even though he must die.
“I hasn’t got nothing to tell, Mas’r, “said Tom with a slow, firm, deliberate utterance….” I know where they go, Mas’r; but I can’t
tell anything, I can die p.469
Heard Tom said like that, with his adjutants, Simon Legree started to flagellate Tom. Tom kept quiet and even there was an occasion for him to say when flagellanted and before he
unconscious, he said:
“Ye Poor miserable critter” there an’t no more you can do I forgive ye, with all my soul”p. 471
4.3 Faith
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