A Lesson Before Dying
“I was not there, yet I was there. No, I did not go to the trial, I did not hear the verdict, because I knew all the time what it would be...” So begins Grant Wiggins, the narrator of Ernest J. Gaines,’ A Lesson Before Dying. Within the novel, university educated, Grant, returns to the tiny plantation town of his youth, where the only job available to him is teaching in the small plantation church school. Grant, trapped in a career he doesn't enjoy, eaten up by resentment at his station in life, and angry by the injustice he sees all around him, allows one to confront the demands of his passions and responsibilities in the novel.Grant confronts a responsibility brought to him by his aunt, with extreme rejection. Although he rejects this responsibility, Tante Lou forces him to undertake this issue. Tante Lou perceives that Grant ought to
Grant’s acceptance in society remains significant to his well being because it builds his self-esteem, and paves the way for the many generations to come, giving them the chance that others were not given. Moreover, Grant’s conflict between his passion and responsibility allows the reader to sympathize for him, and situate themselves between choosing what seems morally right for ones community or for ones self being. As Grant struggles to impart a sense of pride to Jefferson, the accused of killing a white shopkeeper, Grant also learns an important lesson. This responsibility, to somehow educate this man, in the start of the novel, sends Grant into complete indignation. Having to pause his search for hope, he becomes angry with the people who he lives amongst. Being accustom of teaching Jefferson to become a “man,” Grant doesn’t wan
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