The book one, The War Years of the autobiography of
miss Jane Pittman is a great book with too strong content; and teach us how
difficult and cruel was the life of miss Jane Pittman from their years like a
little girl when she was a slave named Ticey and was 10 or 11 years old. This
book present to us the begin of her life and the obstacle that she starts to
affront since she changed her name to Jane Brown, and since she acquired her
freedom. The difficulties that miss Jane pass, in this first book, are
experience that can traumatize any person without take in count their age. How
much racism and amiability she received from white people?
In the first sub chapter of
the book one, titled “Soldiers” we can see how the soldiers of Secesh army hate
the niggers permitting that their ignorance, without fundament, take control of
their racist expressions. We can see that when one of the soldiers said “we the
nobles, not them. God put us here to live the way we want live, that’s in the
bible and he put niggers here to see us living that way that’s in the bible
too” (Gaines 4). In this sub chapter we can see amiability too, for part of the
Yankee soldier Mr. Brown, when he changed the name of Ticey (slave name) to
miss Jane Brown and said that when she get older she can change it for other
name that she like (Gaines 8). This event brought repercussions against Jane,
because as a product of her strong will to maintain her new name, and the
belief of superiority of her mistress, promoting that miss Jane received
whiplashes and was sent to the field (Gaines 9).
The sub chapter more traumatic
of the life of miss Jane that exemplifies the genocidal racism is titled “Massacre”.
In this sub chapter, all the slave that leave the plantation with Jane were
massacred and assassinated for the patrollers and soldiers of the Secesh army
who made up the Ku Klux Klans later on. That is impact because upon a time the
slave receive their freedom and decided to live and found a place, they will
hunt the black people because they hate them for their skin color; these racist
people kill without any justify reason just for fun and for not permit that a
slave live their new free lives. The massacre was too strong they don’t forgive
the life of anyone nor little baby of big Laura (Jane caregiver); for miracle miss
Jane and Ned (son of big Laura) survived. This experience was so traumatic, anyone
who lives something like this can have psychological problems in the future and
more if it is a child, like miss Jane and Ned.
Work Cited:
Work Cited:
Gaines, Ernest J. The
autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. United States: Bantam,
1972.
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