In class we have been reading the novel The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, and in this book there is a lot of stereotypical things coming from both the white and black people. For example Jane thinks that all the southern white people are out to get them, and that the only person who was nice to here lives up north so everyone there must be nice. Jane thinks about this every time she sees a white man. In this book there is an old white man that is nice to Jane, and he shows her on a map where to go. He tells exactly where to go and some things to avoid, and even if he tries do discourage her to get her to turn around and go back he was still nice to her, and he even feeds them.

"Full circle" is my favorite of the short stories that I have read. I enjoyed this book because it had suspense and kept me guessing. A girl crashes on the side of the highway. A man in a blue pickup truck looked like he was trying to help but then ran away. Kinsey, the main character, tried investigating. She visited the place that the girl worked at. The man that owned the store said that the girl was always harassed by a man in a green van. Kinsey finally visits the girl’s roommate at her house, but no one is home. She goes around back and in a garage she sees the blue pickup truck but it is stripped of paint. In the truck she finds a gun. She now knows who killed the girl and as she is pulling out of the driveway she sees him in his van. She chases him in her car until he crashes on the side of the highway. This story is ironic because the man died on the same spot on the highway that the girl he killed did. I liked the character of Kinsey because she is smart and persistent. When she didn’t find the criminal the first or second time she kept trying to find him or her.