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Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin (Cliffs Notes) by Thomas Thornburg, Mary Thornburg ISBN: 0-7645-8677-7 Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: 11 December, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Read the book too!
Comment: I remember using Cliff Notes in my high-school days to avoid extensive reading and yet to pass the tests/write the papers. However, when it comes to this specific book, I highly recommend that you actually READ this book for the personal benefits you'll get, and use the Cliff Notes for summary and a guide only. Some of the most powerful aspects of this book cannot possibly be obtained through the Cliff Notes version alone. It will be found shocking to many African Americans (and educational for many Caucasians) to discover that Uncle Tom was the HERO of this classic novel, and not a "weakling" by any stretch of the imagination. "Uncle Tom", or its shorter form "Tom", has become a slanderous term within the African American community and implies a weak and Caucasian-controlled person, when in actuality Uncle Tom was a powerfully moral man who was willing to die for his convictions rather than succumb to the will of his worst oppressors. In fact, this book was credited by Abraham Lincoln himself as the catalyst that won his election on the abolition of slavery platform, and the resulting Civil War that followed. "Uncle Tom" became a negative slander one hundred years later only after Malcolm-X and the Black Muslims used it to slander Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who exemplified similar characteristics of strength and courage--from a similarly peaceful perspective--in his approach to the Civil Rights issue. As with the fictitious character Tom, Dr. King also died for his convictions without raising a hand against his oppressors. I highly recommend this book to people of all colors and races because of the lessons of self-sacrifice and courage it contains. Caucasian readers will hopefully learn of the pain and suffering of the slaves and gain a deeper compassion for its lingering legacy today. However, I especially recommend Uncle Tom's Cabin to African Americans, for contained in its pages are stories of love, compassion and courage--by both black & white--that will offset the painful legacy of that period caused by the suffering of so many. May the ignorance of the "Uncle Tom" slander be eradicated from their minds as they read of the courage of this fictitious character--who reminded others of Dr. King himself--and the other characters whose struggles and triumphs are contained in its pages also. I also recommend the books: No Apology Necessary, by Earl Carter, Let's Get to Know Each Other, by Tony Evans, and my own book, which is-- White Man in a Black Man's World (tm), by Richard Vermillion.
Rating: 5
Summary: Really Helped Me Out!
Comment: This book helped me pass my test with 100. I didn't even read the actual book "Uncle Tom's Cabin." The CliffsNotes version was enough. The book gives you character analyses and a background of the author in addition to a plot summary by chapter groups. I highly recommend this book if you don't want to read the actual novel.
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Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe ISBN: 0553212184 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 December, 1982 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe ISBN: 068985126X Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contents, Criticism (Norton Critical Editions) by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Ammons ISBN: 0393963039 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 1994 List Price(USD): $16.35 |
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Title: Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (Cliffs Notes) by Cliffs Notes, Susan Van Kirk ISBN: 076458605X Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: 22 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Cliffs Notes) by Robert Bruce ISBN: 0764586041 Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: 30 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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