The Plantation: Reflection by Freddie Blondet

The Plantation is the book three of the autobiography of miss Jane Pittman. This book show us the cruelty, the mistreatment, the abuse, the brutality and the inhumanity that were common in the plantation and continued even later of the freedom of all the slave. Example of this occurred in the competition between Harriet and Katie (two slave) in where the winner would be the one that collected more grass and cotton; and how the grass slowed Harriet she started to leaving grass behind while Grace caught all the grass that Harriet left behind. For this reason, Tom Joe hollored her, and how she did not responses him hollored he went down and started to beating her with the bridle reins, later he started beating Grace because she was trying to protect Harriet and then “Bessie ran down there with the hoe and threatened to chop his head off” (Gaines 139). Later of this success “the Samson didn’t do a thing to Tom Joe, but they fired Katie. And they told Bessie she had to leave the place. Bessie she had a house full of children, but still she had to go. They told her if she didn’t have so many children they would a put her in jail for threatening Tom Joe” (Gaines 139).

These events are too cruel and unjust, because do not do good her job is not reason to be punished physically like in the slavery times. Would have been better, scolding her face-to-face, ordering her to correct all her faults, if she wanted to continue working there. But the fact of hitting her with a desire to kill her shows how the brutalities that occurred in slavery continue to occur. And the fact that nothing has been done to Tom Joe shows the racism on the part of the owners of the plantation that instead of protecting their employees, giving them the same rights, so that they prosecute criminally or punish in some way Abusive Tom Joe; Instead of doing justice, they do not do anything to this abuser, and they dismiss to the victim Katie and its defender Bessie.

            Tom Joe was a racist cruel man with complex of superiority over the niggers that makes him enjoy punish, beat and abuse of any nigger. This man is the representation of the evil because he hated all the niggers just for have a different skin color, he is like any white racist man that leads her hate to action. This class of people should not be exist because uses her authority to take control over others. I do not know who is worse this man, or the men that do not do anything for punish the actions of the people like that. Because the Samson do not do anything to protects their niggers employees nor the son of mister Samson, Timmy that was a black man that was beating by Tom Joe. And Tom Joe for this action was not taken to jail. Because according to Mr. Samson “you pinned medals on a white man when he beat a nigger for drawing back his hand” (Gaines 153). What is worse Tom Joe or Samson? Is a very subjective question that can have variety of answers but for me both are too bad.

Work Cited:

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

Reconstruction: Reflection by Freddie Blondet

Reconstruction

The book two Reconstruction of the autobiography of miss Jane Pittman show us how the ideals of equality and freedom cause the separation of Jane and Ned, making them take different paths in where they grew, marry, re-meet and by those same ideals Ned was persecuted and assassinated. Ned was a typical Martin Luther King, because he teached and fought for the political rights and for the freedom of the black people. Like product of this ideals and his good rhetoric to express the same, did that the local whites disagree this conduct and conspiracy between them hire Albert Cluveau to kill Ned like he does (Gaines 121).

Ned for this liberal’s ideals was persecuted from he was an adolescent that form part of an organized committee that helps colored people, that was treated bad like slave, leave the place to go to New Orleans. For this reasons Colonel Dye (plantation owner) warns Jane that Ned must be stopped, but Ned will not want stop. Product of that, did that one night when Ned was working in the committee, Ku Klux Klan members arrive at Jane's house to kill him I think because this group frequently beat and kill blacks people. So, thanks to God Ned is not home when they come and can flee the plantation later that night. Jane does not want to leave her secure life in the plantation, so they separate with sadness (Gaines 76-79).    

Examples of the good rhetoric of Ned, that creates fear in the white people, can be read when Ned said “This earth is yours and don’t let that man out there take it from you. It’s yours because your people’s bones lay in it; it’s yours because their sweet and their blood done drenched this earth. The white man will use every trick in the trade to take it from you” (Gaines 112).  Expressions like this did that he was persecuted and finally assassinated. For these explanations I see Ned like a Martin Luther King because it is a black man that fought for the rights of his people without matter the consequences because he know that one they he will be assassinated for the whites people (Gaines 113). 

Work Cited:

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

The War Years: Reflection by Freddie Blondet

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:

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

The Miracles Can Happen by Freddie Blondet

The Miracles Can Happen by Freddie Blondet

In a humble apartment in Puerto Rico lives Progress, with his brother Mentality and his mother Sacrifice. Progress was well independent and reserved. For his mother, Progress was a great miracle of God, since this one had been born with a cardiac condition which, at that time, did not appear in the medical books. Progress was born with an obstruction in the aortic and in the mitral valve, in addition to two blows in the heart. For this condition, Progress was operated on fifteen days later of being born. Progress survives this operation, becoming a miracle of God for his mother. And for this reason she always had in mind, that someday her son was going to be someone important in the world.

Doctors, my son is purple, why do they not take care of him? -said Sacrifice. We are very busy, and there are no cardiologists or surgeons to operate at this time since everyone are in trip, in addition there are more important cases than her son, since surely he will not pass of today - answered one of the doctors. Really the doctors in this hospital are abusers, who judge by nationality, but maybe I am a Dominican. But this child is the son of a Puerto Rican and that Puerto Rican is a prosecutor, so the hospital will take care of my son or they will be involved in a very serious problem. - said Sacrifice

At the moment that Sacrifice said these words, all the hospital team began to mobilize, the doctors making calls and began to attend and take care of Progress in an exceptional way. That is, from the moment his mother Sacrifice used force through persuasion to mention that Progress's father was a prosecutor, doctors, surgeons and all the tools to save the life of the little Progress appeared. Progress's life goes like the life of any boy of his age, fighting with his brother Mentality and hearing the screams of his mother Sacrifice, with the difference that Progress, was of those people who had a head full of ideas and was anxious to put them ongoing. The doctors said that he will grow with limitations. And for sure, he will be a weak and skinny boy without musculity for his condition; but all was contrary to the doctors said.