USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Eva’s death isn’t a martyrdom; she dies of natural causes, and Stowe gives us the sense that she’s gently being taken up to Heaven.

Detailed explanation-2: -Inasmuch as Eva is a symbolic figure in the book, she serves as a figure for love and sacrifice. She is a Christ-figure (as John the Baptist in the New Testament foreshadows Jesus), for Eva’s giving of herself precedes and signals Tom’s giving of himself.

Detailed explanation-3: -Little Eva, byname of Evangeline St. Clare, fictional character, the frail, angelic daughter of a Southern slave owner who befriends the black slave Uncle Tom, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1851–52) by Harriet Beecher Stowe.