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Ernest Gaines' A Lesson Before Dying.
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067630 1/4/03 In Ernest Gaines' A Lesson Before Dying, a young man named Jefferson is convicted of murder when he finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. When Jefferson's godmother, Miss Emma, asks the teacher of the black community, Grant Wiggins, to instill in Jefferson a sense of dignity and importance before he dies. Jefferson lost all the dignity he had when his lawyer called him a hog in an attempt to convince the all-white jury of his innocence. In calling Jefferson a hog, the lawyer is calling the entire black race hogs. Grant is at first very reluctant to visit Jefferson. He does not think that he can do anything to help Jefferson, and he does not see the point in it anyway, as Jefferson will not live much longer. He sees the events that have transpired as inevitable, because the black community of Bayonne has no...
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