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Post by Iris Eyes on Apr 30, 2005 16:58:27 GMT -6
-- by Harriet Beecher Stowe. I found this to be an EXTRAORDINARY book -- very very moving, with many a lesson to be gleaned from between its covers. Its age shows (for example when the slave dreamed of a time when a man's wife and child would belong to him and him alone!). According to the Afterward, the characters and scenarios were gleaned from personal experiences and first hand stories related by others. This may or may not be true, I don't know, or care. I know that a bit of controversey has been attendant on this book since its first publishing, but it really is quite moving, and I am not one for throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Should be required reading in schools.
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Post by Tex on May 3, 2005 11:04:16 GMT -6
-- by Harriet Beecher Stowe. I found this to be an EXTRAORDINARY book -- very very moving, with many a lesson to be gleaned from between its covers. Its age shows (for example when the slave dreamed of a time when a man's wife and child would belong to him and him alone!). According to the Afterward, the characters and scenarios were gleaned from personal experiences and first hand stories related by others. This may or may not be true, I don't know, or care. I know that a bit of controversey has been attendant on this book since its first publishing, but it really is quite moving, and I am not one for throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Should be required reading in schools. We had to read it in the fifth grade (1966) and it was over 100 years old then. It did stir up a big controversy (and a big war). |
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on May 3, 2005 12:58:57 GMT -6
It did stir up a big controversy (and a big war). Sounds like a rather precocious group of fifth graders. |
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