He is aided by Benjamin Franklin Walking Eagle, a Native American who is Tom's co-pilot, best friend, and an expert computer technician, and Anita Thorwald, a former rival of Tom's who now works with him as a technician and whose right leg has been rebuilt to contain a miniature computer.

Georgiana May, a friend of Stowe's, wrote a letter to the author, saying, " I was up last night long after one o ' clock, reading and finishing Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Typical story elements include Tom's loyal and quip-prone friend Bud Barclay, his comic-relief cook " Chow " Winkler, spies ( typically from Soviet stand-ins Brungaria or Kranjovia ), use of a wonder-material called Tomasite that did anything the story needed, the amazingly versatile force-ray repelatron, and atomic-powered everything, including the aforesaid atomicar.

* Bud Barclay — Tom's best friend, who accompanies Tom on all his adventures.

Concerned about the plight of Native Americans in southern California and elsewhere, and inspired by her friend Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, Helen Hunt Jackson's novel Ramona was published in November 1884.

She wrote that his wife was a friend of Harriet Beecher Stowe, and had provided Stowe with the story of Eliza in Uncle Tom's Cabin fleeing slavery because Douglas ' great-great-aunt took care of Eliza and her infant after their escape.

" She was inspired by her friend Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin ( 1852 ).

They arrive at the hotel and discover that Tom's friend Kyle left them a present: the Thunderstick A-200, which is a sex toy.

She falls in love with and marries Tom's friend John Westlock.

Max Collingswood, a friend of Tom's, tries to help discover the origins of the boat.

* Max Collingswood – Tom's friend

Stopping by Tom's grave, Kate meets Dr Duncan Fraser, a friend of Tom's from the men's camp.

A couple of examples: Thomas ' only friend in the world, Claude, gives him up immediately to the authorities the second his own well being is threatened, and when Axel Jordache learns of Tom's actions his only impulse is to get rid of him, to send him away to live with family in Ohio.

The storyline follows unhappy housewife Mary Hartman ( née Shumway ), her slightly unfaithful husband Tom, her forgetful and somewhat daffy mother Mrs. Martha Shumway ( nee Larkin ) who tended to talk more to her plants than her own family, and Mary ’ s best friend and next-door neighbor, aspiring country singer Loretta Haggers ( nee McCandless ), and Loretta's much older husband Charlie " Baby Boy " Haggers, who was Tom's best friend, who worked with him at an Automobile Plant assembly line.

This attracts the attention of his landlord Harry Damon ( Conor O ' Farrell ), Tom's friend, Frank McCarthy ( Kevin Dunn ) and their respective sons Kurt Damon ( Steve Rifkin ) and Adam McCarthy ( Chalon Williams ), who all dismiss Samantha as a runaway teen.

He eventually comes out as gay, but she meets her true love in Tom's best friend, Barry Rork.

Tom's best friend.

Tom's father wanted him to become a lawyer, but because a friend was accepted to NIDA, he decided to audition and to his surprise he was accepted into the 1974 class, graduating in 1976.

" He's been a really good friend of ours for years and he's been brought into the fold to take Tom's spot who we encouraged to go pursue his own project.

: Maunaloa Institute for International Studies student, best friend of Tom's, and he has a huge crush on Colleen.

A close friend of Tom's dies of a heart attack ( 2004 )

Very shortly before Tom's death, George Shelby ( Arthur Shelby's son ) arrives to buy Tom ’ s freedom but finds he is too late.

* Arthur Shelby – Tom's master in Kentucky.

King Arthur listens with amazement to Tom's many adventures.

Part I begins with the story of Tom's birth: he is the product of an illicit affair between King Arthur and Angelica, the Lord Mayor of London's daughter.

A dying Arthur reveals his adultery with Angelica, and Tom's parentage is revealed.

The symmetrical way in which Tom and Arthur supply each other's deficiencies shows that Hughes believed in the importance of physical development, boldness, fighting spirit, and sociability ( Tom's contribution ) as well as Christian morality and idealism ( Arthur's ).

Arthur first appeared on stage as a baby in Uncle Tom's Cabin and he and his sister, Florence, became part of the act in 1910.

As well as stories from the Old Testament, John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, she grew up with Aesop ’ s Fables, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies, the folk tales and mythology of Scotland, the German Romantics, Shakespeare, and the romances of Sir Walter Scott.

A running gag concerns Tom's inability to remember the previous week's Puzzler without heavy prompting from Ray.

The best-selling anti-slavery novel from the 19th century is Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1852.

: This article is about the character from the Harriet Beecher Stowe novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the resulting epithet.

Detail of an illustration from the first book edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Stowe reversed the gender conventions of slave narratives by juxtaposing Uncle Tom's passivity against the daring of three African American women who escape from slavery.

Stowe read the first edition of Henson's narrative and later confirmed that she had incorporated elements from it into Uncle Tom's Cabin.

After Stowe's death her son and grandson claimed she and Henson had met before Uncle Tom's Cabin was written, but the chronology does not hold up to scrutiny and she probably drew material only from his published autobiography.

Often Tom must protect his new invention from villains " intent on stealing Tom's thunder or preventing his success ," but Tom is always successful in the end.

" However, as the series progresses, Tom's inventions " show an increasingly independent genius as he develops devices, such as an electric rifle and a photo telephone, further removed from the scientific norm ".

The series differs from previous versions of the character, however, in that Tom's inventive genius is portrayed as problematic and sometimes dangerous.

Wyatt thought Tom fired a revolver over the horse and believed until he died that Tom's revolver had been removed from the scene by Wesley Fuller.

According to Light, at that time Tom McLaury was already struggling away from the fight, although other eyewitness accounts placed Tom's movement later.

Because Stowe saw motherhood as the " ethical and structural model for all of American life " and also believed that only women had the moral authority to save the United States from the demon of slavery, another major theme of Uncle Tom's Cabin is the moral power and sanctity of women.

Despite this positive reaction from readers, for decades literary critics dismissed the style found in Uncle Tom's Cabin and other sentimental novels because these books were written by women and so prominently featured " women's sloppy emotions.

Upon publication, Uncle Tom's Cabin ignited a firestorm of protest from defenders of slavery ( who created a number of books in response to the novel ) while the book elicited praise from abolitionists.

" Charles Francis Adams, the American minister to Britain during the war, argued later that " Uncle Tom's Cabin ; or Life among the Lowly, published in 1852, exercised, largely from fortuitous circumstances, a more immediate, considerable and dramatic world-influence than any other book ever printed.

Illustration of Sam from the 1888 " New Edition " of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Still from Edwin S. Porter's 1903 version of Uncle Tom's Cabin, which was one of the first full-length movies.

A movie poster from Kroger Babb's 1965 production of Uncle Tom's Cabin

* Pictures and stories from Uncle Tom's cabin ; " The purpose of the editor of this little work, has been to adapt it for the juvenile family circle.

One subplot which, beginning on the first page of the first volume, ran the length of the series, is Tom's communication, via mathematical " space symbols ," with beings from " Planet X.