Question

What did Miss Jane mean when she said Jimmy was "the One"?

Answer 1

I will then emphasize the poetics of distanced memory, as opposed to what Toni ... speech at the beginning of the war (“'Don't put my food up', they said,” AJP, 4). ... echoed in Miss Jane's answers, when she speaks of Jimmy's being “the One”: ... slavery into freedom, as much as about being “saved” in a religious meaning.