Daisy and Eva

I absolutely adore this book! I really enjoy Fern's simplicity and the way she gets right to the point. I think her language is really down to earth and a breath of fresh air from Eliot's heavy and wordy language in Middlemarch.
     Now to my blog topic. Daisy's death reminded me of Eva's in Uncle Tom's Cabin. Both of these girls were almost too good and pure for this world. In chapter 21 on page 46, Dinah even says of Daisy, "I knew she wouldn't live, ever since she said dat 'bout de catepillar. De Lord wants de chil', dat's a fac'." Dinah is referring to the incident where Daisy is playing with a catepillar in a state of awe and appreciation for God's creatures. Both Daisy and Eva, as young and little as they were, appreciated the life surrounding them. They were different, however, in that Eva's devotion was based on religion and directed toward God and heaven, whereas Daisy's devotion was more grounded and earthly and directed toward nature. Both girls departed this world with parental figures that were deeply devoted to them. I think Stowe, though, found it necessary for Eva to die in order to make a point. Fern, on the other hand, was simply illustrating a heartbreaking and unfortunately common event in the lives of many mothers and fathers.