In reading the second third of the novel, I have found it increasingly hard to read the sections at the St Clair house. This is mostly because the devices used to construct Tom as a hero and likable character rely so much on making him a character that indulges white standards and ideals and simultaneously establishes the black race as a separate “species.” For example, his relationship with Eva is so strong because of what Stowe describes as the “soft, impressionable nature of his kindly race” that gives him a “yearning toward the simple and childlike” (152). Not only is this so obviously ignorant and offensive, it almost lends itself to justifying slavery because of the way it establishes Tom’s “kindly race” as one that is meant to be with children and occupy relationships like that of his with Eva that free white people do not. Similarly, the contrast to how Adolph, the head enslaved person in the St Clair household, is portrayed and to how Tom is shows just how much Stowe wanted to communicate that black people need to be submissive and agreeable to white standards to be worthy of sympathy and care. Adolph is described as “thoughtless and self-indulgent,” becasue he has “fallen into an absolute confusion…with regard to himself and his master’ (210), whereas every mention of Tom is accompanied by a complement to his personality and trustworthiness because of his obedience and overachieving in his serving of his masters. He goes above and beyond for St Clair, trying to get him to stop drinking, to be religious, and to generally make everyone in the household happier – the only thing that is missing is Tom’s consideration of any need or feeling he may have himself. Stowe is explicitly sending a message that this type of black person is the type of black person that the public should care about, (one that is essentially not a full human, and is rather an indulgence of white standards), and that other forms of how they may appear as full human beings are intolerable.