Betty+Diana+Pitt,+Northern+Christian+Housewife+from+New+York

Brenda Han :

Betty Diana Pitt, Northern Christian Housewife from New York. []

My name is Betty Diana Pitt. I am a middle-class Christian housewife. I am forty years old and I have a husband named Bradley Pitt who is a stockbroker in New York. He is a wonderful husband. I also have three wonderful God-fearing children, Georgiana, Jonathan, and Juliana. I go to First Methodist Church of New York every single day to pray and worship the Lord Almighty. I bring my children whenever I can because I want them to worship God just like a good Christian. When I am not at church, I love reading to my children.

But I never want my children to read Uncle Tom’s Cabin until they are old enough to understand the issues. And how do I know about this book? Through my pastor, who gave me this book to read. This book is the saddest book I have ever read! It is about how black slaves are tortured by white southern slave owners. The main character in this book is Uncle Tom, who goes through many tragic events. His whole life is about how he was beaten by white southerners. In one part of the book that I found really sad is when Simon Legree beat up Tom because Tom worships God. I felt really sorry for Tom because I believe that everyone has rights to worship God. I am sure God will punish Simon Legree for what he did to Tom.

I heard that many slave families were separated because the southerners wanted money and did not care about families. This is what happened to Uncle Tom’s family as well. He was separated from his wife and his children. I wonder how I would feel if I were to get separated from my family too. I think that would be terrible because I love my husband and my children so much that I would die if I don’t see them. I lost one of my sons in a tragic drowning accident. I was so sad that I would never see him again. I am sure he is in peace and doing well in heaven. He was a great son and a great boy. He was innocent and did not deserve to die just like Tom did not deserve to die.

Even before reading this book, I disagreed with slavery because God would want everyone to be treated equally. God sent Jesus to die for sins even for black people. Look what the southerners are doing to black slaves. They have no right to call themselves Christians especially when they are breaking up slave families and disobeying God. They deserve to be punished and go to hell.

I think Harriet Beecher Stowe is an amazing lady and a good Christian. She is helping both God and black people by writing this book. I am going to help her by telling more people to read her book and this way slavery will be abolished. I think everybody in First Methodist Church of New York should read this book. I want everyone to know what is really going on in the south. Slavery has to end soon. I do not want more innocent people to be tortured and killed and families to be separated. They are all innocent people and do not deserve such cruelty. The children, especially, do not deserve it.

I am glad I read this book. Oh, I should tell my husband to read this book as well. It was really hard to read this book because it was so tragic. Whenever I go to church, I will always pray for slavery to end.

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom%27s_Cabin [|http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/STOWE/Stowe.html] [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom's_Cabin#Tom_sold_to_Simon_Legree]