Online Diary to Uncle Tom´s Cabin

After reading this chapter, I could remember best that Eliza and Harry ran away in the night,
because Haley wanted to buy Harry the next day. She held Harry in her arms and ran and ran,
her body hurted, but her son made her new strange. When I read it I felt tension. I heard ever
and ever in my head that she must get it!!!!! While Eliza ran and ran away the others on the
farm helped Eliza and wasted Haley´s time a long time how long they could. I thought it was
really good of them.

The Mississippi River is very long, it starts in the cold north and ends in the sub-tropical south
almost 3,000 miles later. On the steamboat, there is Tom sitting behind one of these bales.
Haley sees that Tom always helps to load and unload the boat, one day Haley let Tom walk arround
wherever he wants. Tom sees all the large houses of the masters and the small cabins from the
slaves. He thinks about his life in Kentucky and about his own cabin. He know that both were
far far away.
One of the passengers is a young man from the St. Clare family of New Orleans. There is also a
five-year-old girl girl who is his daughter and another woman who seems to know them very well!!!
The young girl is very pretty and the author describes her as a intlellignet, young, everytime smiling
chíld. Everybody has to smile at her!!!! She calls Evangeline but everybody calls her Eva!!!
So Eva and Tom talk about theirselfs. So Evangeline wants to talk to her father to buy Uncle Tom.
Tom watches her running over to her father who is standing by the side of the boat, so she slippes
and fall over the side of the boat, but a big, strong, black slve jumps in and is pulling her to the side
of the boat. The next day Eva and her father talk to Haley and buy Tom. Haley signes a bill. Tom goes
to his new Master and thanks him for selling him. St. Clare says that Tom will be his new driver and
Tom is happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Eliza, her husband George and their son Harry wants to run away to Canada
because there is freedom and no slavey,at the time they are in the Quaker
house. (it is a community for slaves) So a bad message comes to their ears
some men want to catch them and bring them to their owners and to the
slave market in the Orleans, after that message Eliza, George and Harry left
with some others in a carriage. Suddenly seven men ride to the rocks, where
George, Eliza and Harry are. George stands of a rock and shouts to them
that he is not somebody´s slave, his family is him and he is going to kill some-
body if they come in the near. So a man takes out his gun and points up the
rock at George, but it only pasts George´s ear. He sees Tom Loker, one of the
men, leading the others along the narrow path, so George points with one
of his pistols at Tom and fires a bullet, into his side. The other men run to help
and want to take Tom onto a horse. The author describes Tom Loker as a
heavy man, so the others can´t take him onto the hrse. Instead they get onto
their horses and ride away. Eliza and the other people run down to help him,
because he looks like he is dead and George doesn´t want ever to kill some-
one, so Phineas, someone from the Quaker house, takes Tom and bring him
to a farm. The journey for the young family goes on…

The chapter “Tom´s new Master” is about Eva, Tom, Augustine, Ophelia arriving at St. Clare house.

Augustine St. Clare is a rather unhappy man because he is married to a woman he doesn´t love. His
cousin Ophelia comes to his house to help.
She comes from the north and it is her first time in the south.
The author describes the south as hot and dusty. Ophelia has never married and she hates laziness and
wasting time. she always knows what is right and wrong. Her relationship to Augustine is very good but
she acts more than an aunt as as a cousin.
When Tom arrivs he is impressed by the beauty of the house.
Eva runs into the house, kissing and embracing her mother who is lying on the couch but she don´t like
it. Then Eva sees the other servants and kissing them again and again, but Ophelia don´t understand
because kissing them is more than she cares for.
Augustine goes to his wife and introduces Tom his wife, she says coldy that she hopes that he doesn´t
drink as much as the last driver.
The author describes Eva´s mother as a cold woman.

comunity - Gemeinde
among - unter (There are three really good soccer player among the team)
sew - nähen
lenght - Länge
wealthy - wohlhabend/reich
sensitive - sensibel
sensible - vernünfig
jealous - eifersüchtig
complain of sth. - sich über etwas beklagen
complain about s.o./sth. - sich über etwas/jemanden beschweren
to waste - vergeuden
waste - Abfall
courtyard - Innenhof/Hof
heathenish - heidnisch
hug - umarmen/drücken/knuddeln
embrace - umarmen
in disgust - angewidert
fate - Schicksal
behave - sich benehmen
cold-hearted - kaltherzig
condemn - verachten
to focus on - konzentrieren auf (the chapter focus on the breakup of Tom’s family
to be concerned  of - sich Sorgen machen um
imply - bedeuten (it implies that)admit - zugeben ( I have to admit, this vocabcheck will be more difficult)
encourage s.o - jmd. ermutigen (Who encouraged George to read and write?)

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guess - vermuten
suppose - annehmen
expect - erwarten
explore - erforschen
discover - entdecken
trust - vertrauen
margin - Rand
repetition - Wiederholung
incident - Vorfall
event - Ereignis
to figure out sth - etwas herausfinden (ich habe für mich etwas erkannt…)
realize - erkennen
get sth. wrong - etwas falsch verstehen

Uncle Tom´s cabin is a very small building and next to his owner´s house, Shelby.
There are also many flowers and a lot of fruits. Inside is Aunt Chloe who is making
supper for Tom, her husband. She lookes very happy as she takes  her famous
cakes out of the oven.In one corner there are two black, young boys,  Pete and Mose 
with curly-hair trying to teach their little sister to walk. In front of the fire sits a old, serious big
black man on a chair. He is writing  letters to slate helped by a thirteen-year-old white boy.
The white boy calles George and was Mr. Shelby´s son. Soon the cabin is crowded with other
slaves of all ages for the meeting.There are also an old man of 80 years and a girl of 15 years.
They sing hymns, read the bible and Tom led the others in prayers.
While there are the meeting Shelby and Haley were counting money in the house, Shelby signs
some papers and Tom is selld to Haley.

Eliza who is a pretty enslaved woman had grown up in the Shelby house, she was married with a young
mullato slave called George Harris fom another farm in the area. George´s owner is not so happy because
George is very intelligent and works in a factory. He takes George out of the factory and back to the farm.
There he has to do terrrible things like killing a “nigger dog” but he doesn´t do, so his owner ´whipped him.
He goes to Eliza and tells her the story and he wants to go to Canada because there it is freedom, but Eliza cries!!!
For a few times there stand there and say nothing, then George left quietly…