... of anger and resentment. When he brought Jefferson the radio it inspired Jefferson and allowed him to let Grant help him. Grant buys Jefferson a small notebook to write down his thoughts and Jefferson agrees to use the items. The notebook serves to help them communicate. Grant sees the benefits that persistence and continuation can lead to as he observes Jefferson using his ... notebook to write things down. The turning point in Jefferson's actions is when his date of execution is finally set. In the face of death Jefferson learns to accept life, and ... . His statement shows how he is...

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• Grade Level: High School

... and feels that escape is the only way out of the depression he suffers from. "But I had been running in place ever since, unable to accept what used to be my life, unable to leave it" (102). For this reason, his romantic relationship with his girlfriend, Vivian, suffers greatly. Over the course of many visits to Jefferson's cell however, Grant finds ... his perspective to greatly change and Grant is inspired to strive for the things he holds dear to his heart. The notebook symbolizes the two men's friendship and in it, Jefferson writes about his newly-learned life lessons and fills the ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... prisoner has taken the lawyer's words very seriously. The first few visits are uncomfortable and very quiet. In the following weeks, Grant brings Jefferson a radio, on another he gives Jefferson's a notebook and a pencil and asks him to write down whatever thoughts come to his mind. The religious leader of the community, Reverend Ambrose, visits Jefferson as well yet he is unable ... summed up in this quotation. "I discovered the Russians, Turgenev, Gogol who spoke of the peasants. Then the French, Flaubert, Maupassant, Zola. But no one was telling me the story of my people. Thus as a t...

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