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A Lesson before Dying
Gaines uses the methods of believing in both the capacity of human beings to change and the way we make peace with death as ways in which A Lesson Before Dying could be seen as having really...
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A Lesson before Dying
According to the story, Inez Lane is the maid who works in Henry Pichot's large gray and white antebellum house. We first meet Inez in Chapter 3 when Grant, his aunt (Tante Lou) and Miss Emma go up...
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A Lesson before Dying
The protagonist, Grant Wiggins, does not especially want to help Miss Emma. Despite being a college educated man, he is still considered inferior by whites in his society. Powerless to change this...
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A Lesson before Dying
Gaines's style in Grant's narration is a literary element used to communicate the text's central idea. The style of Grant's narration is distinctly different at the start of the narrative from...
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A Lesson before Dying
Ernest J. Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying is set during the days of racial segregation in the South and centers around the theme of the dehumanization of racial discrimination. Relationships in the...
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A Lesson before Dying
The "lesson" that Jefferson demonstrates is that human beings have the capacity to change. Jefferson's evolution underscores the novel's central theme of transformation. Jefferson's execution is...
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One example of segregation in A Lesson Before Dying is how Grant and other black people are forced to enter homes through the back entrance. That is the entrance that is reserved for servants (who...
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A Lesson before Dying
If you are asking for the original publication date, that is 1993. Ernest Gaines placed the book in Bayonne, Louisiana during the 1940's. A more specific date is not given. Placing the book...
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A Lesson before Dying
As we see in Chapter 9 of Ernest J. Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying, the first time Grant goes with Miss Emma to visit her godson Jefferson in jail, Jefferson treats them with silence and hostility,...
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A Lesson before Dying
In A Lesson Before Dying, we meet Jefferson, a black man who is accused of murder. Jefferson is a simple kindhearted man who swears he is innocent. He goes to trial and his lawyer argues that...
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A Lesson before Dying
As is revealed in Chapter 4 of Ernest J. Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying, one cause of conflict between Vivian and her family due to the prospect of her marrying Grant is the fact that Vivian is not...
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A Lesson before Dying
Jefferson is convicted of murder and sentenced to death by execution. During his sentence, the defense lawyer refers to Jefferson as a "hog", claiming that it is senseless to execute someone who...
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A Lesson before Dying
The setting is a small town in the South called Bayonne in the 1940’s. Bayonne, which is named after a town in France, is a Cajun town. It represents many small towns in the South during the...
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The ending image of Grant seeing the butterfly is the sign for him to recognize that the execution has ended and that he can say goodbye. At this particular point in the narrative, Grant is not...
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She is willing to prostate herself before Henri Pichot because she is willing to do anything that will help her son to die "like a man" rather than "like a hog," as was said during his trial....
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This conversation occurs in Chapter 4, and is when Grant is feeling very entrapped and frustrated with his position in life. He feels that he is being forced against his will to spend time with...
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This question can best be answered by referring to the change in the character of Grant as the novel progresses. He begins the novel deeply unhappy about the racial segregation that is seemingly...
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what is the theme of chapter 30 in a lesson before dying?
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A Lesson before Dying
In thatchapters, we see that Grant is a man divided—from his family, from his friends, from himself—due to the deeply scarring environmental influences of racism. The conflict between Grant and...
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Jefferson's attorney compares him to a hog. This is also frequently mentioned throughout the rest of the book as Jefferson believes he truly is as worthless as a hog after hearing these words.
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The climax of the story is when Grant gives his passionate speech to Jefferson and both men cry as a result of the speech.
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The answer to this question is a matter of perspective and what one individual considers a "real teacher." I believe that Jefferson, the imprisoned many who has been sentenced to death, is the real...
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can someone give me an example of history of england?
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A Lesson before Dying
We are given a very complete description of Bayonne in Chapter Four, which is when Grant first goes to Bayonne in the novel. As he drives to Bayonne, which is 13 miles away from the quarter, he...
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A Lesson before Dying
I suggest you begin by reviewing the excellent enotes guide for this book. The overview can be found here: http://www.enotes.com/lesson-before You can also find a specific page for themes....
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A Lesson before Dying
Significant quotations from stories are often related to the theme and/or the author's purpose for the story. In A Lesson Before Dying, the last two chapters of the novel contain many statements...
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Gaines is effective as a storyteller in A Lesson Before Dying because he does not paint his characters in a simple light. In the attached essay, the argument is made that Gaines does not make it...
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A Lesson before Dying
In a sense, this book is more about the injustice in the world thanks to racism than actually presenting a treatise on how to live life. Yet arguably, we can infer such lessons from the way in...
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There are several circumstances toward the end of A Lesson Before Dying that do the most to explain a comparison between Jefferson and Jesus. One circumstance is that Jefferson is executed on Good...
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A Lesson before Dying
In Chapter 5 of A Lesson Before Dying, Grant listens to the children recite their Bible verses; and before the children speak, he already knows which verse each will recite. Similarly, when Grant...
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A Lesson before Dying
In A Lesson Before Dying, Grant refuses to take dinner at Mr. Henri's house because he does not respect Mr. Henri. To appease Miss Emma and his aunt, Grant has already used the back door to enter...
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A Lesson before Dying
Ernest Gaines's novel, A Lesson Before Dying is set in Louisiana. There, the main character, a young black man of diminished mental capacities named Jefferson finds himself in a liquor store...
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A Lesson before Dying
The setting has a large impact on the plot of A Lesson Before Dying. The novel is set in Bayonne, a small town in Louisiana. A specific date is not given, but the descriptions of the residents'...
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A Lesson before Dying
One of the major themes of Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying is the concept of justice in the face of racism. The story is set in a small town in Louisiana, and the residents of the town and...
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A Lesson before Dying
In A Lesson Before Dying, Grant agrees to visit Jefferson on a regular basis. Since Jefferson has been put in jail, he has only received visitors from his family, primarily his godmother Miss...
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A Lesson before Dying
In the beginning chapters of the book A Lesson Before Dying the reader learns that Grant was not present at Jefferson's trial but that he knows about it as if he had been there. He also knows what...
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Grant's family has lived in Louisiana for over a century. The story takes place in the 1940s; the family had originally been slaves on the plantation, and have remained there even after slavery has...
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Grant is a school teacher in a small community. He has school, on the day that Jefferson is supposed to be executed. Grant wanted to be with Jefferson but he knew he could not handle watching the...
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Grant's aunt is a deeply spiritual woman who attends church every Sunday. She always looks at Grant to see if he is going to attend but she doesn't say anything. She waits for Jefferson's...
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The shaving is when the prisoner is prepared for the electrodes to be attached. In Jefferson's case the warden and his deputies discussed taking him out of the cell so they could shave him. He...
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Reverend Ambrose calls Grant uneducated because even thought he has an education he is not educated if he doesn't hold the faith. Thats what Reverend means by that. Good Luck!!
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A Lesson before Dying
In the book "A Lesson Before Dying" Jefferson has been involved in a liquor store robbery that goes wrong. There is a shoot-out and he is arrested. He is a young black man. He is the only one...
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A Lesson before Dying
In A Lesson Before Dying, Grant is a schoolteacher who is charged with visiting Jefferson, a man sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit, and helping him to turn into a man before he is...
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A Lesson before Dying
This is a very unspecific question; however, Chapter 13 specifically takes place on a Sunday – Determination Sunday. On this particular day, Grant is at home while his aunt, Tante Lou, goes to...
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A Lesson before Dying
The novel is set in bayou country, Louisiana during the 1940s. This was a pivotal time in America: a time of war abroad and in the South (for civil rights). The Jim Crow era was a time of...
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A Lesson before Dying
Setting is overly important to the theme of A Lesson Before Dying. The story is set in a small town in Louisiana, and this setting lays the foundation for the relationships and mentality in the...
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A Lesson before Dying
During the 1940's, life in Louisiana was mostly rural, except for New Orleans which a hub of trade, being on the gulf coast. Temperature was mainly hot, humid, tropical...a lot of people died from...
