The novel ‘A Lesson Before Dying’, written by Ernest J. Gaines, is set in 1948 in the old plantation, Deep South. The novel shows how racist the white people were to the colored. It is about the ways people insist on stating the value of their lives in a time and place, which those lives count for nothing. It focuses on Jefferson – a sincere, sensitive, young black man of below-avera

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