New Generation

in our next selection of reading, we sees something that is rather revolutionary. This is the view on black person. In the reading, the little white girl, eva confesed that she had loved topsy, who happends to be a black young man. Through this, we can slowly see the view on black people. the view is slowly changing from detest to accepting. This could very well represent the public in general. Young people have more tolerant for black people because they grew up around them. they are used to seeing them and they get to know them better than the adults. In the previous post, i talked about how the young owner promised tom that he would go and save him as soon as he gets older. This supports my theory.

duty or greed

After reading the next section, i remembered that i've acturally saw the movie before. There is one scene that i remember vividly about. It is the scene when a slave [Tom] jumps down to save a little white girl [Eva] in the ocean. When i was watching the movie, i had no idea what the name of it is. now that i read this selection i remembered the movie. This scene is also important to the reader. it gets me to ask, "why is he doing this?" "why is he trying to save the same people that enslaved them for generation after generation?" "is it for personal gain?" "or is it out of duty?" All these questions is unable to be concluded from the context itself. we can argu all day that he is doing it out of duty because he is brought up to serve the white people. When he sees a white person in trouble, he instintively tries to help. Another argument is that he does this for personal gain. At that moment of time, Tom knows that Eva's dad is a rich white man who's looking for a slave. He could assum that if he save his daughter, he will be bought and treated nicely? This might be how the slaves cope with their life. They does stuff that's pleasing to the white people so they dont' hit them or even worse; kills them.

In our next section, we sees something really amazing going on. Just when Mr. Haley went to Sheleys house to collect tom, the young Haley promised tom that he would go and rescue Tom when he grows up. This tells us alot about how he is raised to act. If you think about a child, what's is the nature of their behavior? they behave according to how they are brought up. In this selection, He is acturally promising to free tom when he is able to. In one hand we can assum that the kid is just being a kid and doesn't know what he's talkin about; in the other hand, we can see that he has been brought up to respect the slaves. From the action of the kid, we can tell a lot about their parents. we can tell that they are respective; even to their slaves.