Dignity and Sacrifice Depicted in Gaines' A Lesson Before Dying

In Ernest J. Gains' novel 'The course before dying', a young African American named Jefferson had problems with alcoholism as the only survivor. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. During Jefferson 's trial, defense attorney called him uneducated pig to release him, but the jury ignored this and sentenced him to death. It is shocking that Miss Jefferson's grandmother Emma asked the sheriff that her visit to the local school teacher Grant Wiggins might help Jefferson become a man before his death.

Nicoleen Ochoa October 24, 2014 Freshman seminar Lesson before dying Ernest J. Gaines, First Ernest J. Gaines' visual acuity testing schedule of the first Granville Grant Wiggins is an elementary school teacher and a novel's narrator. He is a smart black man living in Louisiana. When I remembered the test vent, he said he was not there, but he could imagine it. The incident that led to the trial was that Jefferson hitchhiken with two friends, brothers and bears. They all parked in a liquor store, where brothers and bears asked the shop owner to sell wine. When the owner rejected, they all started shooting, and left Jefferson standing there, and was shocked. All the owners of Brother, Bell, and the shop died in that store, and Jefferson saw the open cash register and started withdrawing money there. In the process, two white men entered the store and witnessed Jefferson taking money.

Ernest Gains' novel "Lessons before death" will be published in Louisiana. There, the hero, a young black man accompanied by a decline in mental power, Jefferson discovered himself in a liquor store, he decided to rob it. Unfortunately, the owner and the two men were killed. Therefore, when a white male entered the store and Jefferson had a bottle in his hand, he was arrested by a white jury and sentenced to death. Prior to the integration, the setting of Louisiana in the 1940s clearly decided the direction of the Gains Festival. The time and place of "learning before death" is very important, with the theme of racism discrimination as the theme. Jefferson was immediately sentenced to death and there was no hope of appeal