After reading both novels Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass I can now compare and contrast both authors and their way of interpreting slave life to the reader.
             Harriet Beecher Stowe was born on June 14, 1811. She was the seventh child of a famous protestant preacher. Harriet worked as a teacher with her older sister Catharine. Her earliest publication was geography for children, issued in 1833. In 1836, Harriet married a widower Calvin Stowe. They eventually had seven children. Stowe helped to support her family financially by writing for local and religious periodicals. During her life, she wrote poems, travel books, biographical sketches, and children's books, as well as adult novels. She died at the age of 85, in Hartford Connecticut. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote at least ten novels, but she is mostly known for her first that was written in 1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
             Frederick Douglass was a nineteenth-century African-American abolitionist who escaped from slavery and then risked his own freedom by becoming an outspoken antislavery lecturer, writer, and publisher. The novel I read was an autobiography about his own personal encounters with slavery and how it affected his life.
             Harriet Beecher Stowe uses many different writing styles throughout the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. She first uses irony to expose the moral hypocrisies of the slave trade. Shelby is thought of to be a good shaveholder, but after concluding a deal with Haley two families are being torn apart by his actions. Stowe also uses many scenes as symbols. For instance, Eliza's "miraculous" leap onto the river ice through the unique power of a mother's love. It also could symbolize a passage from slavery to freedom and the courage required to make such a passage. Also, an instance of foreshadowing occurs when Eva and Tom read the Bible, and Eva says that she will soon be going to heaven to join t...