SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
UNCLE TOMS CABIN
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Asks if she is okay.
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Tells her of her past experiences.
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Asks if she ever lost a child.
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She asked to be friends.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Bird’s sympathies for Eliza are further aroused because Mrs. Bird’s young son died recently. In this, Mrs. Bird is a stand-in for Stowe herself, who felt greater sympathy for the plight of slave mothers because she lost a child.
Detailed explanation-2: -Stowe suggests that Eliza’s amazing leap onto the river ice is made possible only through the unique power of a mother’s love, and Eliza earns Mrs. Bird’s sympathy in part by appealing to her grief for her own dead child.
Detailed explanation-3: -Shelby sends his personal slave, Andy, to find out where Eliza is. Aunt Chloe, who could tell them, doesn’t say a word. Finally, they find out that Eliza has run away with her child. Mrs.
Detailed explanation-4: -Before Eliza leaves, Mrs. Bird gives the young woman some clothes that had belonged to her son, who passed away recently. The Senator takes Eliza and Harry down a difficult road to honest old John Van Trompe, a man who has freed all of his slaves.
Detailed explanation-5: -But when she discovers that, contrary to his promises and the demands of human decency, her master is going to sell her young son Harry to the unscrupulous slave trader Mr. Haley, she immediately decides to run away.