I just finished reading The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman in my English class. I learned much from it, but what stuck out the most was what I learned about freedom. I learned that freedom is being free as yourself, not changing to be free. I learned this from a chapter in the novel about a character named Miss Lilly. She was a new teacher on the plantation, and she was trying to get the black children to be exactly like the white children of their time. No matter how hard she tried, she could not get the black children to change. So, this ended up not working, teaching the readers about what freedom really is.
