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.