ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Called “Mas’r George” by Uncle Tom, George is the Shelbys’ good-hearted son. He loves Tom and promises to rescue him from the cruelty into which his father sold him. After Tom dies, he resolves to free all the slaves on the family farm in Kentucky.

Detailed explanation-2: -At last one day he had a grand idea. He would write a letter. Before Uncle Tom was sold, George Shelby had been teaching him to write so he thought he could manage a letter.

Detailed explanation-3: -Tom urges George to be a good boy. George tells Haley to treat Uncle Tom with care. He says Haley should be ashamed of himself, treating humans like cattle. George and Tom say goodbye and Haley drives away.

Detailed explanation-4: -Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) published more than 30 books, but it was her best-selling anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin that catapulted her to international celebrity and secured her place in history.

Detailed explanation-5: -At the opening of the novel, Tom, his wife, and his child are owned by a farmer in Kentucky, Arnold Shelby. Shelby sells Tom and another slave named Harry, the son of the housemaid Eliza, to unscrupulous slave trader Mr. Haley.