A Lesson Before Dying Summary
Angel Lothridge
Ms. Sloan
SAt/ACT Prep
25 november 2014
Report on A Lesson Before Dying
A Lesson Before Dying is written by Ernest J. Gaines. This book shows us that
there is indeed hope, and that everyone has a purpose in life. There is nothing that can change what will happen in the end. However, a person is left with two options. You can deny and fight it the entire way, or accept it, learn from it, and move forward. You have to make the decision to either let your battles bring you down or to let them make something of you. A Lesson Before Dying shows what it is like to accept what is given to you and how to make something great out of it. This book takes place in a small community in the rural South during the 1940. …show more content…
Emma says, "
I need you speak for me, Mr. Henri I want the teacher visit my boy. I want the teacher make him know he' not a hog, he's a man. I want him know that fore he go to that chair, Mr. Henri."
(p.21). Grant's understanding of the title is that it is his responsibility to teach Jefferson how to be a man. Early on he states, "They want me to make him a man before he dies."
(p.31). Grant is in a conflict because he is unsure of how a man should live, let alone die.
He knows that whatever he does will not affect the fact that Jefferson will be executed.
He is worried about the way the community views him. They see him as a teacher with the ability to do just that, but what if he is not able to do that. What if he fails to teach
Jefferson how to die? Then where does that leave him? Grant unexpectedly helped Jefferson, but he also was teaching himself a lesson at the same time. He is still withdrawn and filled with prejudice, and he is afraid, to the very end, to show even the slightest emotion. He refuses to go to the execution. Even while thinking about it, he denies himself tears for his dear friend Jefferson. As he says, "I …show more content…
Most importantly a man is not an animal. That power and influence ultimately no contractions. What matters is trying your best to find out what matters in life to you fragment. The best way to have a happy life is to do what will
ultimately make you happy with yourself in the end. My interpretation of the title, A
Lesson Before Dying, is not a long or in depth one. What you are to learn, however, is quite different for everyone. What I feel is that the lesson is to prepare yourself to die, to be ready for it all to end and most importantly, when it does it you should be proud of yourself. What lesson could you learn to be ready to die? What would prepare anyone for such a thing? A Lesson Before Dying tells a story of how important it is to find hope and pride in anything you do. Jefferson was faced with a big obstacle. Jefferson was left to die as a hog and instead of letting that get to him he learned from it and died as a man. You cannot always change the way people think of you, but you can change the way you
Ms. Sloan
SAt/ACT Prep
25 november 2014
Report on A Lesson Before Dying
A Lesson Before Dying is written by Ernest J. Gaines. This book shows us that
there is indeed hope, and that everyone has a purpose in life. There is nothing that can change what will happen in the end. However, a person is left with two options. You can deny and fight it the entire way, or accept it, learn from it, and move forward. You have to make the decision to either let your battles bring you down or to let them make something of you. A Lesson Before Dying shows what it is like to accept what is given to you and how to make something great out of it. This book takes place in a small community in the rural South during the 1940. …show more content…
Emma says, "
I need you speak for me, Mr. Henri I want the teacher visit my boy. I want the teacher make him know he' not a hog, he's a man. I want him know that fore he go to that chair, Mr. Henri."
(p.21). Grant's understanding of the title is that it is his responsibility to teach Jefferson how to be a man. Early on he states, "They want me to make him a man before he dies."
(p.31). Grant is in a conflict because he is unsure of how a man should live, let alone die.
He knows that whatever he does will not affect the fact that Jefferson will be executed.
He is worried about the way the community views him. They see him as a teacher with the ability to do just that, but what if he is not able to do that. What if he fails to teach
Jefferson how to die? Then where does that leave him? Grant unexpectedly helped Jefferson, but he also was teaching himself a lesson at the same time. He is still withdrawn and filled with prejudice, and he is afraid, to the very end, to show even the slightest emotion. He refuses to go to the execution. Even while thinking about it, he denies himself tears for his dear friend Jefferson. As he says, "I …show more content…
Most importantly a man is not an animal. That power and influence ultimately no contractions. What matters is trying your best to find out what matters in life to you fragment. The best way to have a happy life is to do what will
ultimately make you happy with yourself in the end. My interpretation of the title, A
Lesson Before Dying, is not a long or in depth one. What you are to learn, however, is quite different for everyone. What I feel is that the lesson is to prepare yourself to die, to be ready for it all to end and most importantly, when it does it you should be proud of yourself. What lesson could you learn to be ready to die? What would prepare anyone for such a thing? A Lesson Before Dying tells a story of how important it is to find hope and pride in anything you do. Jefferson was faced with a big obstacle. Jefferson was left to die as a hog and instead of letting that get to him he learned from it and died as a man. You cannot always change the way people think of you, but you can change the way you