Alice Stoowe Word Choice Summary

Stowe's word choice critiques the societal ills of her time substantially. Stowe addresses the time of the horrendous America slave-trade. Woman and children were sold, bought, and even killed due to enslavement. Countless mothers were separated from their kids and families. Stowe includes and uses characters which suffered to emphasize the injustice of slavery .Stowe uses words such as heart-broken, sorrowful, dying eyes, silent nursery, empty cradle and hapless describing the feelings the mothers were going through during that time. The writer has given only a faint shadow, a dim picture, of the anguish and despair that are, at this very moment, riving thousands of hearts, shattering thousands of families, and driving a helpless and sensitive race to frenzy and despair (Stowe 7).
She uses words such as slavery, illegal, racism, and frightful reality to critique the hostility which was taking place. She fought to end slavery and was active in the abolitionist movement. She strongly believed that the mothers had the right to protect, guide, educate, and play a role in their child’s life like other mothers. Nothing of tragedy can be written, can be spoken, can be conceived, that equals the frightful reality of scenes daily and hourly acting on our shores, beneath the shadow of American law, and the shadow of the cross of Christ (Stowe 8). She believed in the equality, freedom, rights and peace society has a right to and should adapt. Thus, that’s how Stowe's word choice critiques the societal ills of her time from the excerpt Uncle Tom’s