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The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman

    In the novel The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman, there were many different stories about

JanePittman’s life. In the movie there were not as many stories as the novel, but they were still quite

interesting. The novel and the movie had many similarities and differences.

    Some of the similarities were very noticeable. Just from the beginning, in both the movie and the

novel, Ned carried the two rocks that made the fire for Jane and Ned. Ned then moves away and writes

Jane, but the letter doesn’t reach Jane for a whole year. Albert Clevoue shot Ned in both.

    Joe had to pay colonel Dye for getting him out of trouble with the Ku Klux Klan. Colonel Dye

was selfish and asked for money as "interest", most find him just greedy. Once Jane and Joe moved away,

Jane had a couple of dreams that Joe would be killed by some horse, so she went to a hoo-doo. Sure

enough, Joe was killed by a horse. Later, a boy was born, and they called him "The One." His name was

Jimmy. They wanted him to become a preacher, but he didn’t want to.

    Differences that were highly noticeable were that in the novel, the interviewer was a teacher that

wanted her information for his class and in the movie, it was a magazine reporter. When Albert Clevoue

died in the novel, the chariots of hell came for him, and in the movie, you don’t even hear of his death. In

the novel, it was a black horse that killed Joe Pittman, and the movie, whit...

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Submitted by: 123student
Date Submitted: 10-18-2009
Category: Biographies
Words: 660
Pages: 2.64