Ready Reference Treatise: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

By Raja Sharma

“The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” by Ernest J. Gaines was first published in the year 1971. The story revolves around the struggles of African American.

A woman named Jane Pittman happens to be the witness to the struggles and she narrates the story. She begins with the description of the major events which took place in her life from the time when she was a young slave girl in America South.

The story is set in the time period during and after the Civil War.
The novel through the major characters tells the stories which they recall and the stories cover a fairly long period of time in history.
There are a number of fictional characters in the story, but Jane and some other characters allude to various historical events and figures emerging the time period of close to one hundred years, as Miss Jane can recall.

Along with the description of the American Civil War, Jane gives the reference of the Spanish-American War, and she also narrates both World Wars and the starting of the Vietnam War.

The figures like Frederick Douglass, Booker, T. Washington, Jackie Robisson, Fred Shuttlesworth, Rosa Parks, and many other historical figures are mentioned by Jane and the other characters of the book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raja Sharma
• Release date: Jan 18, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301928422

Raja Sharma

Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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Ready Reference Treatise: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Raja Sharma

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Ready Reference Treatise: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Raja Sharma

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Preface

Guide books or book notes are primarily written to make students understand the original text better, especially from all those angles which are often overlooked by a casual reader.

But, in the recent years it has been noticed that a very large majority of the students, without reading the original texts, rely on the guide books or notes prepared by their teachers or others. This is definitely not a healthy habit because students do pass their exams with the help of such notes; they miss so many things which haunt them in their later lives.

I would strongly advise all students to read the original text once again even if you have already read it, after reading this short treatise. You will see that the same story, after reading this treatise, will begin to give many new meanings to you.

All the best

Raja Sharma

Chapter One: Introduction to The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines was first published in the year 1971. The story revolves around the struggles of African American.

A woman named Jane Pittman happens to be the witness to the struggles and she narrates the story. She begins with the description of the major events which took place in her life from the time when she was a young slave girl in America South.

The story is set in the time period during and after the Civil War.

The novel through the major characters tells the stories which they recall and the stories cover a fairly long period of time in history.

There are a number of fictional characters in the story, but Jane and some other characters allude to various historical events and figures emerging the time period of close to one hundred years, as Miss Jane can recall.

Along with the description of the American Civil War, Jane gives the reference of the Spanish-American War, and she also narrates both World Wars and the starting of the Vietnam War.

The figures like Frederick Douglass, Booker, T. Washington, Jackie Robisson, Fred Shuttlesworth, Rosa Parks, and many other historical figures are mentioned by Jane and the other characters of the book.

Corporal Brown’s narration of these historical events and figures seems to be setting the record straight. It adds to the mood of storytelling in the novel.

The book teems with the historical events, and obviously it leads certain leaders to believe that the book is non-fiction, which it is not.

The long descriptions and the appropriate details presented through the perspectives of the narrators provide a kind of complete picture of the past history the events after the Civil War in America.

Chapter Two: Plot Summary

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