The Quarters: Reflection by Freddie Blondet

The Quarters is the four and last book of the autobiography of miss Jane Pittman. The quarters are the place where the other blacks live and Jane want to move back there, later of the death of Tee Bob. This book start later of the suicide of Tee Bob, in book three, cause of his impossible love with Mary Agnes because she was a nigger. So, the book four is about the changes that occur in the plantation later o the death of Tee Bob; first Jane move to the quarters, Robert Samson has leased his land mostly to Cajuns and the rest for colored people out the quarters (Gaines 218).

The book four focus their attention on Jimmy Aaron from the beginning because start with the phrase “People’s always looking for somebody to come lead them” (Gaines 211). This phrase show us the desire of the people to find his savor, and this savor was Jimmy, because the elders on the Samson plantation prepare him to be a strong leader with high feeling of compression of others. All in the Samson plantation and all the colored people over the parish wanted that Jimmy becomes in the one. For these reason everyone in the plantation did all that they can to help Jimmy in his studies.

Jimmy was an example man, and when he grow up he was like Ned and for that he was assassinated too. Jimmy has good oratory and was partner of protest of Martin Luther King. So Jimmy fought and protest for the civil rights of the black people and for believe in this was assassinated (Gaines 259). So, in this world and novel we can see the reality that occur in this time in where you cannot think different of the ideals of the state if you want conserved your life. But thanks to this people and his death exist a better world that need change to achieve more equality. 

Work Cited:

Gaines, Ernest J. The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. United States: Bantam, 1972.