When I first started reading this, I found the flipping back
and forth between the dual story lines to be interesting; I may be wrong, but
that to me seems to be a writing technique you do not often see in Stowe’s
time. I am actually quite fond of that particular approach; I feel it creates
an edge-of-your-seat/can’t-wait-to-see-what’s-going-to-happen-next tension that
you see more commonly in modern day television dramas like Lost and Once Upon a
time.
Anyways, while I felt initial sympathy for Mr. Shelby (he
seemed to be a decent sort...you know, for a slave owner), my sympathy for him
quickly turned into a form of lack of respect; Mr. Shelby has no back bone and
if I was Mrs. Shelby I think I would be ashamed by his lack of effort to
prevent from selling Tom and Eliza, who both have families of their own,
despite his financial problems.
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