Who Is To Blame For Isabel Responsible For His Own Deaths?

“Whenever I hear someone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.” Our sixteenth president, Abraham Lincoln, said this. Isabel makes many important decisions through the novel, but a few were when she took the blame for Ruth at the docks, saved Lady Seymour from the huge fire in New York, and took Curzon with her as she escaped from her evil mistress. To sum it up, everything she did was one step further toward getting back to Rhode Island and her dead Momma and Poppa with Ruth and maybe Curzon too. This is true because everything she did made Madam angry, which in the end of the book, turned out well because the motivation Isabel got to run away was Madam’s heavy threats and Lady Seymour’s encouragement.
This is important because Madam got to know Isabel as an insolent brat when really all Isabel’s intentions were was to protect her little sister and get back to Rhode Island where she belonged. When Ruth giggled because Madam was protecting her underclothes, Madam was humiliated and wanted to hit the culprit. Now, since she believed Isabel tried to humiliate her, Isabel was definitely on her list of people to punish. “Madam flew off the chest and pointed her finger at us. ‘Which one of you made that noise?’ Her face flushed with rage…” (Pg. 33) Madam showed her likeness to Ruth quickly and made her into an entertainment, while Isabel carried in wood, did laundry, and brought water to the Lockton house from the Tea Water Pump. Isabel did the dirty work while Ruth was a cute entertainment. Now that Madam hated Isabel, she hated anything or anyone that thought she was great, like Lady
However, she lost Ruth’s doll. This is important because Isabel is not just an insolent black girl. She is brave and caring, for saving an old woman from a burning house takes a lot of courage. She easily could’ve grabbed Ruth’s doll and ran out as far as she possibly could, but instead she dragged Lady Seymour in addition to a picture of a yellow haired man, some coins, and a stack of letters. “I dragged Lady Seymour north, then east, away from the course of the wind, which blew like a bellows and fanned the flames.” (Pg. 194) At some points in the book, Isabel seemed selfish to me, but when she dragged Lady Seymour out, it seemed she was so far from selfish. So, even though she didn’t have to and Madam would be mad because she wanted the Lady dead, Isabel did it to be kind and Lady Seymour was a good woman. Now, since Lady Seymour was a good, Christian, loving, smart woman, Isabel trusted her and although all of this was true, and that Lady Seymour wanted to buy her, Isabel didn’t want to be auctioned, sold, and used like a carton of eggs. In the end, this made Isabel a braver and kinder