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Uncle Tom's Cabin: Denotation and Connotation - Chapters 21-25

Answer 1

The scene now shifts back to the Shelby plantation in Kentucky, where Aunt Chloe has just received the letter Tom wrote her with Little Eva's help. Mrs. Shelby tells her husband about the letter, in which Tom says that although his new family is kind, he still longs to return to his "real home."

Mr. Shelby, in the meantime, has still been plagued by debt. Mrs. Shelby offers to help raise money, especially so that they can buy Tom. Mr. Shelby becomes angry, and his wife lets the unlikely hope drop for the present. Chloe then calls for Mrs. Shelby and asks if she could be hired out as a pastry cook in Louisville in order to earn money for Tom. Mrs. Shelby gives Chloe her blessing.

Answer 2

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St. Clare purchases a youthful slave named Topsy, who has never gotten any training, and offers her to Miss Ophelia to guide. Miss Ophelia challenges, yet St. Clare reveals to her that Topsy's past proprietors have mishandled her. He takes note of that the kid's back bears various scars. He additionally calls attention to that, in educating Topsy, Ophelia would satisfy a job likened to that of an evangelist. This announcement stirs Ophelia's still, small voice and she consents to take on Topsy's guidance. Be that as it may, Topsy demonstrates defiant and wild, unacquainted with the traditions of Christian conduct. After she takes a couple of gloves, Ophelia squeezes her to admit her different sins, and she admits dishonestly to taking different things. Afterward, Topsy clarifies that she didn't have anything to admit yet needed to oblige the more seasoned lady. At the point when Eva expresses a couple of expressions of consideration to the young lady, Topsy takes a gander at her in bewilderment, having never heard thoughtfulness. In any case, the youthful slave and Eva rapidly moved toward becoming companions, and gallivant about playing together. Be that as it may, Topsy stays similarly as unmanageable as previously. Ophelia attempts to educate Topsy the questioning, however the young lady neglects to see even its words, and in this manner she presents them back mutilated and confounded, with no appreciation of their importance.