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Uncle Tom S Cabin Irony
Justin Jaeke
Mrs. Batstone
Ap. Lang
Per. 4
11/18/14
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Irony The author of the passage from Uncle Tom’s Cabin reveals the authors love for irony. The author is trying to prove that slavery is evil and should be abolished. Using sentences like “So the trader only regarded the mortal anguish which he saw working in those dark features, those clenched hands, and suffocating breathings, as necessary incidents of the trade, and merely calculated whether she was going to scream, and get up a commotion on the boat; for, like other supporters of our peculiar institution, he decidedly disliked agitation.” This passage shows that Mr. Haley has let go of his emotions and because it for the better good does not care/comfort the slave. Mr. Haley feels emotions, he cannot just turn them off, but justifies his “evil” acts by saying “I got a chance to sell him toe first-rate family, that’ll rise him better than you can.” Thinking he is in the right and is doing right allows him to justify his immoral actions.
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