http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/uncle-toms-cabin-harriet-beecher-stowe/1100025188?ean=9781593081218
One
thing I've started to do is attempt to read classic books I've never read
before. I'm finding my visual vocabulary
and speech needs some work, and shifting my reading syntax gears, majorly, is
in order to fully comprehend this particular work.
I
grew up in a movie theater, as my father was a manager for several years, and
watching black and white films, and black and white TV, from the 40’s and 50’s,
was just what it was, black and white...where the South was depicted in black and white...giving the
same speech patterns and actions of people that Stowe uses in her writing of this book. The one thing I can do is visualize, easily, these sets of actions
and emotions she places on her pages.
There
is an introduction and notes by Amanda Claybaugh, and a chronological listing of
world events during the time of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s life, which gives
insight to the writing of this book. This
book is over four hundred pages, and I’m barely into forty of them, so I have a
ways to go. But, already, I get what
this writer is trying to convey to her readers.
It’s powerful in its concept. I
see, now, why the dividing line existed(s) between people and states, because
of this story.
I’ve
watched a few programs presented by a PBS station on the history of blacks and whites in
the public eye...tracing their history back as far as they can go. These people are amazed at their heritage,
their linage, and how slavery brought them to present day. I find it all not just fascinating, but
historically revealing, telling us more than just an order of birth, but showing bloodlines that cross all boundaries.
I
hope to continue to write a fuller review of this story, once I finish reading...and digesting it all.
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