Why do We Make Stereotypes

In this unit of my ninth grade English class, we are studying The Auto Biography of Miss Jane Pittman.  This is a novel written by Ernest Gaines in the early 1900's.  It is a bout a struggling African American slave who has been freed but encounters some man vs. man, man vs. himself, and man vs. nature issues.  She grew up as a slave and only knows farm working as a skill.  Our blog post is supposed to contain stereo types as seen in the novel.  A stereo is a generalized assumption of a group of people or objects.  An example of a stereotype I will use is how Southerners hate black people.  Even in the story Jane and others find themselves benefiting from southern white people as they try to make their way to the north.  That just shows that some stereo types may be true for some people, but you never need to judge somebody just because of what you have heard or thought you saw.  All people are different and you can never understand them if you don't try and interact with them.