Harriet Beecher Stowe carefully planned her novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, to change the mindset of her readers that would in turn change culture. She accomplished this feat by capturing the reader's sympathy toward the characters, both black and white, and evoking compassion with the dramatic story line. The readers become witnesses to the suffering in the novel and they feel the emotions that the characters feel. One of the ways Stowe uses to win the compassion of the reader is by getting them to relate to the characters. Back in the day the novel was written, many people thought of blacks as a commodity, with no more feelings than a bale of h