ANALYSIS OF UNCLE TOM'S CABIN 

Step-by-step explanation

1. Discuss two good reasons that "The Mother's Struggle" is an appropriate title for Chapter 7?
1.Eliza feels desperate and lonely when she leaves Uncle Tom's cabin, and she is tormented by a mother sense of terror for her endangered kid. She prays to God and wanders through the night until she reaches the Ohio River, which serves as a dividing line between the North and the South.
2.Eliza has to suffer just because she's a woman. When she needed aid and recognized Mr. Symmes, the owner of the farm he fears to help her
2. Who is Sam? Why does the author write that "Sam was in wonderful spirits," when each of his possible sightings of Eliza turn out to not be her? How does Sam help her?
Sam is a character who delays the masters of Eliza so that she can escape. Sam is also a friend to Mr. Shelby. The author said he was in good spirits because he kept a very brisk look out. He also came refreshed and delighted
3. What do you think the author's purpose is in having a man help Eliza escape even though he is a friend of Mr. Shelby's?
Because Sam was in pity of the slaves and wanted to see the freed
CH 9: In Which It Appears That a Senator Is but a Man

4. The author, Harriet Beecher Stowe, feels it is important for her readers to know the substance of the Fugitive Slave Act. What does she do inform the reader of this law? Be sure to provide textual evidence to support your statement(s).
The law passed was forbidding people from helping off the slaves that came over from Kentucky
"There has been a law passed forbibing people to help off the slaves that come over from Kentucky, my dear so much of that thing has been done by these reckless abolitionists that our brethren in Kentucky are very strongly excited and it seems necessary and no more than Christian an kind that something should be done by our state to quiet the excitement"
5. How is the theme of religion versus politics explored in Chapter 9? Be sure to provide textual evidence to support your statement(s).
The politics forbid helping the slaves while in the Christianity view they could give the people shelter and also feed them
"And what did the law? It don't forbid us to shelter those poor creatures a night, does it and to give them something comfortable to ear and a few old clothes and send then quietly about their business"
6. What is the significance of John Von Trompe being described as a former "land-holder and slave owner in the state of Kentucky?" Be sure to provide textual evidence to support your statement(s).
John was abiding by the law that did not protect the slaves. He was not concerned with helping those people. Mary said to him "you ought to be ashamed John! Poor, homeless, houseless creatures! Its shameful wicked abominable law "He was concerned with the public interests ad much as he knew it was right to help the people
7. What are the two things in this historical fiction that were real and introduced in Ch. 9? Be sure to provide textual evidence to support your statement(s).
1.Christianity upholds helping those in need if one is in a position to. "Now john I don't know anything about politics but I can read my bible and there I see that I must feed the hungry clothe the naked and comfort the desolate and that bible I mean to follow" those were Mary words to john.
2.Oppression of the poor slaves where they just worked a d never got shelter and comfortable food
 

CH 12: Select Incident of Lawful Trade

8. What is the author's intent by contrasting Mr. Haley's sole interest in thinking of slaves in terms of their physical strength and how he will be able to resell them and Tom's continued pondering on the Bible and a "pitying Jesus?" Be sure to provide textual evidence to support your statement(s).
He was thinking of the market value and also how business would work with physical factors in play. He thought he was merciful and thought if the people went against him he would not have a reason to favor them
"As, for example, Mr. Haley: he thought first of Tom's length, and breadth, and height, and what he would sell for, if he was kept fat and in good case till he got him into market. He thought of how he should make out his gang; he thought of the respective market value of certain supposititious men and women and children who were to compose it, and other kindred topics of the business; then he thought of himself, and how humane he was, that whereas other men chained their "niggers" hand and foot both, he only put fetters on the feet, and left Tom the use of his hands, as long as he behaved well; and he sighed to think how ungrateful human nature was, so that there was even room to doubt whether Tom appreciated his mercies"
9. Why might the author so frequently speak directly to the reader and ask the reader questions as she does in the last four to five paragraphs at the end of this chapter? Be sure to provide textual evidence to support your statement(s).
This is to create a better understanding for the reader. The reader us able to get the perspective in a much practical conversational way.
"But who, sir, makes the trader? Who is most to blame? The enlightened, cultivated, intelligent man, who supports the system of which the trader is the inevitable result, or the poor trader himself? You make the public statement that calls for his trade, that debauches and depraves him, till he feels no shame in it; and in what are you better than he?"