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Summary: 110 years of History
Review: Miss. Jane Pittman is unsurpassed as a storyteller; this book is adapted from the oral dictation of a slave born before the civil war all the way through the 1960s to when blacks were gaining some respect.
This is an elaborate book starting at when Jane is serving water to different sets of soldiers. Her continual albeit fake admiration of the white men and woman is incredible. I could not imagine faking my way through life of liking persons. Her story tells us of how it was like to be hated, beated, tortured and given no respect whatsoever. It makes one wonder in awe how the world has cometo be.
Her story is poignant and mesmerizing. She speaks of how her life as slave was . . . how she was 'married' and bore her children. What amazes me most, is how she never lost her dream of becoming free; of never losing respect for 'the white people'. After all they did to her and her people, she never hated them. Jane Pittman felt this was her life, and God was going to do what he felt was right. What an incredible, selfless way to live!!
However true this book is, it seemed fake. Fake because I've never really known such injustice and racism like Miss. Jane Pittman suffered. This is a real book from a real woman. With the use of the language to the stories. For years I would start the book and it would never be completed. I am glad I have now. This is a book sure to be etched in persons minds forever.
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Summary: No Black Veil Here
Review: More than anything, this novel is a record of the nascent Civil Rights Movement through the witness of one woman, Miss Pittman. In the format of oral history, she provides a first-hand account of injustice and brutality in the South over a period of one hundred years.She was born just prior to the Civil War and the odyssey begins with her serving water to both Secesh (Secessionist or Confederate) soldiers and also Union soldiers on the same day. From there, the story spirals into brutality and she suffers one indignity after another. But what is redeeming about this novel is her vision of freedom--something to be fought for, something to sacrifice for, and something that, regardless of race, some are not willing to have. She speaks of people having a "black veil" over they eyes, they cannot see to reach and grasp freedom. The strength of this novel is in its narrative power and vision for justice. This is one book that we should all read.
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Summary: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Review: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Erenst Gaines is a good example of racism and discrimination.Erenst Gaines looks throught the eyes of Jane Pittamn to explore the world of racism and class in her jounery from Bayonne,LA to Ohio. The book takes place in many states but mainlyin Bayonne during the Cival War.The book is about a slave named Jane Pittman who finaly gets freedom and her journey's to ohio.
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Summary: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Review: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman is an inspiring novel. It explores many events that took place in our history. Miss Jane Pittman is a black woman who battled for her freedom during the time period of slavery. When she was eleven years old she began her battle of freedom. But she never relived that she would battle for her freedom for the rest of her life. When she was eleven she took on the resonability of a young boy Ned. He was about her age. When reading this novel chapter by chapter it was like watching Jane and Ned (the boy) grow into wise and hard working people. Befro I read the this novel I never relized how harsh and crul that people were treated in this time period. The setting of the novel was imporant. Both Ned and Jane was travling by foot to seek freedom. And the setting never changed through out the novel no matter were they went. The novel helped me discover history that I had never heard of. A few little wars went on in the novel that many people don't even know of. This was an very inspiring novel. The novel also made me relize how people struggle just to stay alive. It made me look at freedom in a compleatley diffrent way than what I had looked at it befor. I highley recomened this novel to evey one.
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Summary: An excellent account of a woman's struggle in life.
Review: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman truly demonstrated the customs and culture that existed during and after slavery. Miss Jane Pittman tells the story from her point of view from post civil war to the civil rights movement. As a ninth grade student, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman interested and exposed me to the times of trial that slaves and free African Americans had to go through at this time period.
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Summary: Black triumphs through the Civil War
Review: The book I read was Miss Jane Pittman.I thought this book was really good . It told about the black peoples trouble during the Civil War and after the Civil War.The story was about this girl that was growing up in the South. Jane was a slave until she was nine yrs. old. then one day while she was working out in the field this North solder told her in a couple days she was going to be saved and released. She told everybody this, but nobody believed her. When that day came she went out looking for the solder. She never found the solder but her adventures while she was looking for him were quite interesting.This book was execellent!!!!!
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Summary: Read this book!
Review: The book is exceptional! I give the book three stars because there's too much killing in the book. Which is cool, but the young ones will read all that happens.I know that back in the 1800's the owners of the slaves would do tribal things to them.
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Summary: ok
Review: The Book was Ok. But sometimes the "Books" In the book would confuse me. But Since have to Read this anyway for school It doesn't seem enjoyable. I have to read it for Summer Reading and no-one Likes that! So There We have it.
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Summary: Fantastic Storytelling; a worthwhile history lesson.
Review: This book deftly educates its readers of the peculiar and brutal injustices of an unspoken time in our country's history -- Jim Crow. Though fictional, the title character speaks with an honest, wholly believable voice as she recounts personal triumphs and trevails over her 110 year life in the deep south. Gaines gives us a rare, convincing insider's glimpse of Jim Crow and extends no apologies, courtesies, or explanations in the story's often tragic and humorous telling. Gaines -- and Jane -- are at their best in the early years during and immediately following the civil war. Jane's recounting of these experiences is simple, brutally candid and, at times, is surprisingly humorous. Unfortunately, the story thins as Jane ages, but is redeemed by the impeccable authenticity with which Gaines captures the day-to-day living of black folks as they struggled to survive Jim Crow. The climax, though melodramatic, redeems the story's thin middle and provides a satisfying e! nd to Jane's autobiographical narrative. In conclusion, this book is great storytelling -- a spritely mix of tragedy, humor, history, and mother's wit. Indirectly, Gaines makes both whites and blacks accountable for their respective roles in Jim Crow, but deftly aviods delivering a sermon by disquising his commentary in Miss Jane's sometimes comical, often captivating yarns.
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Summary: A great look into the changing lives of African-Americans
Review: This book provided great insight to the hardships that faced African-Americans as they struggled for equality. The story was very believable, but it was a little hard to place it on a timeline. A little slave girl is renamed Jane Brown by a soldier. When she is freed she searches for him. She sets out walking and never makes it out of Louisana. In the end she lives on a plantation until her death.
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