this misery. I would die for them, Tom, if I could (Stowe 299). Here one can conclude that Eva does have compassion on all people. After Eva verbalized her feelings, Stowe goes on to say, “Tom looked at the child with awe; and when she, hearing her father’s voice, glided away, he wiped his eyes many times, as he looked at her” (Stowe 299). Eva did indeed have a positive spiritual impact on Tom coping with the hardships of slavery.The last way in which Uncle Tom’s faith helps him endure the hardships of slavery is physically. Toward the end of the novel he is sold to Simon Legree, due to the death of Mr. St. Clare. Simon Legree was the most ruthless of all Tom’s masters. Without faith, Tom would have acted in the manner that Mr. Legree desired him to do so. Tom would have been like any other character if he had succumbed to Legree’s temptation. In the same way, if Jesus had sinned would He not be set apart from the human race? Uncle Tom displays how his faith helps him through the physical torture of slavery at the end of chapter twenty-three. At this point in the novel, it was time to come in from working in the fields and weigh one’s basket. Tom’s basket was weighed and approved. Now his new friend, who was called Miss Cassy, came forward to have her basket weighed. She said something to Simon Legree in French that nobody nearby understood. Nevertheless, Legree’s countenance became “demoniacal.” When this incident occurred, Mr. Legree asked Uncle Tom to flog her. Uncle Tom responded by simply refusing at first and then he explained that there was no way possible that he could go through with it. Legree didn’t take this kindly. He said, “Ye’ll larn a pretty smart chance of things ye never did know, before I’ve done with ye!” (Stowe 386). Stowe goes on in describing that Legree said this while, “taking up a cowhide,...
