Legend claims that Abraham Lincoln greeted her as "the little lady who made this big war." This lady who appealed for an end to slavery in the United States used a vision she had during a church service of a black man being beaten. This vision became the inspiration and main idea for her novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin", or "Life Among the Lowly". Harriet Beecher Stowe, a realist used her book to convey the evils of slavery by using symbolism and characterization.
The developments throughout the novel by the use of symbolism are seen in two ways: objects and metaphors. …
