Grant Wiggins In A Lesson Before Dying

Grant Wiggins life crisis’ seemed to take up a huge role in A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines. Grant’s main focus was to make Jefferson into a man before he was electrocuted to death in prison. I am not saying that Jefferson was not changed from a “hog” into a man, but I believe that Grant was the one who became the bigger man. Therefore, I strongly believe that Gaines wrote this book about Wiggins; rather than Jefferson. Grant Wiggins improved as a person greatly in A Lesson Before Dying, and for the most part this lead to improving his relationships with other people. At the beginning of the book, it seemed as Wiggins almost hated Jefferson and he had no sympathy for him or for the situation itself. After a few visits with Jefferson,