Eliza. A description of her in the begging of chapter seven which states, "It is impossible to conceive of a human creature more wholly desolate and forlorn than Eliza," truly pulls at the heart of every reader (Stowe, 105).
             Stowe continues describing Eliza's decrepit life and epitomizes it as the sum of a" suffering" husband and a child in "danger" of being sold. These fears also were partnered with the fear of risking her life by escaping and the pain of leaving "every familiar object, -- the place where she had grown up, the trees under which she had played, the groves where she had walked many an evening in happier days, by the side of her young husband, -- everything" (Stowe, 105). Those reading the novel easily empathize and feel for Eliza. They know she is woman struggling with so much, a point in her life when everything was difficult – ever decision a difficult one. As stated before, she is "desolate" and "forlorn", for her decision to leave and run for freedom is truly a double-edged sword. If she does leave, her son will not be sold and there is a chance for freedom, but if she flees, her and her son will risk being caught by slave catchers and she will be forced to leave the place she once loved. The readers are lifted in their spirits, however, as they realize the beauty of Eliza's struggle, for it shows the love she has for he
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