"I was not there, yet I was there." (Gaines 3) Grant says this in the beginning of the story reflecting back on Jefferson’s trial. This quote characterizes Grant as a type of person who accepts his role in the society, in which he lives and feels a responsibility towards those around him. Although he was not present at the trial, it has become personal to him and the remorse he feels for the situation could be none the more real if he had been there. (www.accessus.net) Grant Wiggins, is a teacher at an elementary school. Grant is a very bitter man for being so young; maybe it is because he has known nothing but

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