Lesson Before Dying Themes
A Lesson Before Dying- Question 3 Response
In a Lesson Before Dying the women played a significant role to the men. A Lesson Before Dying took place in Louisiana during 1948. A man named Jefferson was accused of killing a white person, and Jefferson was sentenced to death by the electric chair. There were scenes between Grant and Tante Lou, Grant and Vivian, and Jefferson and Miss Emma. The first moments were between Grant and Tante Lou. Tante Lou had raised Grant and sent him off to school to learn and become a teacher. This made Grant become a better man, a better person, and a better role model for the kids he taught in his school. Next, Tante Lou taught him that not everything is gonna go the way you want it in your life. For …show more content…
example, when tante Lou asked Grant to go to the jail cell and talk to Jefferson each day to make him become a man before he died, but Grant didn't want to yet he still went because he was told to. That’s how Tante Lou played a significant role on Grant.
Then we see moments between Grant and Vivian(his girlfriend) where she played a big role on him. When Grant first met Vivian they were both teachers, but at different schools. One of the first scenes between them was Grant went to see Vivian at her school. Once Grant got there, he was shocked to see that her school was better and then he started talking to her and said nothing's changing for us, were still the same. What he meant by that was that nothing was changing for the blacks everything was still the same. Grant asked Vivian where she wanted to go so him and her could leave the state to go somewhere better. Vivian responded with no where, u left once before then you came back. Then she said that he should stay to help Jefferson become a man like Tante Lou told Grant before he died. That’s how Vivian made Grant a better man and person and also played a big role to Grant.
The last two people where we see a girl play a significant role in a man's life is between Miss Emma and Jefferson. Jefferson learned a lot from Miss Emma while he was in Jail, especially when Grant went to visit him when Miss Emma couldn’t. Miss Emma taught Jefferson that not everything is gonna go your way. She gave him food to eat while he was in the jail cell. Grant always delivered her food to him. Then lastly, when Miss Emma went to visit him he would look at her and smile. That’s how Miss Emma taught Jefferson to be a Man before he went to the chair, and played a significant role to Jefferson.
In conclusion, while watching the movie made me know more about a lot of things and how women played many key parts in it. That’s how Tante Lou played a big role in Grant’s life, how Vivian play a big role in Grant's life, and lastly how Miss Emma played a big role in Jefferson’s life.
A Lesson Before Dying- Question 6 Response
After watching the movie and comparing it to the poem If We Must Die, I noticed the many similarities between them.
The poem is about the same themes and has the messages basically the same and was written after the movie was made. They have many themes, characters, and messages that are each like each other.
There are many themes that are the same between the moviee and the poem. The first theme that’s the same is that they both have Judgment in them. They both have judgment in them by having the movie judge the blacks in most things that they do and in the poem they judge them by calling the blacks hogs instead of their real name. Another theme they both have in common is racism. The movie has it by the whites calling the blacks names and being disrespectful to them and we also see and read that in the poem. That’s just two of the many themes they have in common.
The next thing the movie and the poem have in common is that they both have similar characters to one another. For example, in the movie they have Jefferson in the jail cell and in the poem they say and mention that someone is penned and put in an inglorious spot, which means that they are in an uncomfortable jail cell. Next, it says in the movie that let him die as a man on the chair and make them proud. Then they go on and say in the poem that let our blood may not be shed but to honor us through death. That’s how they have some characters the
same.
Lastly, we compare how the messages in both the poem and the movie are close to the same message. In the movie they were trying to prove how the black population was ruled in Louisiana by the whites and how making a black man go to the chair proud to be a man for the black population and prove to the whites that they are not scared and have fight in them. In the poem they say “Though far outnumbered let us show us brave, and for their thousand blows deal one deathblow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!”. That’s how these two have the same message.
All in all, the movie and the book were both very good. They both had the similar characters, themes, and also had the same message when compared to each other.
In a Lesson Before Dying the women played a significant role to the men. A Lesson Before Dying took place in Louisiana during 1948. A man named Jefferson was accused of killing a white person, and Jefferson was sentenced to death by the electric chair. There were scenes between Grant and Tante Lou, Grant and Vivian, and Jefferson and Miss Emma. The first moments were between Grant and Tante Lou. Tante Lou had raised Grant and sent him off to school to learn and become a teacher. This made Grant become a better man, a better person, and a better role model for the kids he taught in his school. Next, Tante Lou taught him that not everything is gonna go the way you want it in your life. For …show more content…
example, when tante Lou asked Grant to go to the jail cell and talk to Jefferson each day to make him become a man before he died, but Grant didn't want to yet he still went because he was told to. That’s how Tante Lou played a significant role on Grant.
Then we see moments between Grant and Vivian(his girlfriend) where she played a big role on him. When Grant first met Vivian they were both teachers, but at different schools. One of the first scenes between them was Grant went to see Vivian at her school. Once Grant got there, he was shocked to see that her school was better and then he started talking to her and said nothing's changing for us, were still the same. What he meant by that was that nothing was changing for the blacks everything was still the same. Grant asked Vivian where she wanted to go so him and her could leave the state to go somewhere better. Vivian responded with no where, u left once before then you came back. Then she said that he should stay to help Jefferson become a man like Tante Lou told Grant before he died. That’s how Vivian made Grant a better man and person and also played a big role to Grant.
The last two people where we see a girl play a significant role in a man's life is between Miss Emma and Jefferson. Jefferson learned a lot from Miss Emma while he was in Jail, especially when Grant went to visit him when Miss Emma couldn’t. Miss Emma taught Jefferson that not everything is gonna go your way. She gave him food to eat while he was in the jail cell. Grant always delivered her food to him. Then lastly, when Miss Emma went to visit him he would look at her and smile. That’s how Miss Emma taught Jefferson to be a Man before he went to the chair, and played a significant role to Jefferson.
In conclusion, while watching the movie made me know more about a lot of things and how women played many key parts in it. That’s how Tante Lou played a big role in Grant’s life, how Vivian play a big role in Grant's life, and lastly how Miss Emma played a big role in Jefferson’s life.
A Lesson Before Dying- Question 6 Response
After watching the movie and comparing it to the poem If We Must Die, I noticed the many similarities between them.
The poem is about the same themes and has the messages basically the same and was written after the movie was made. They have many themes, characters, and messages that are each like each other.
There are many themes that are the same between the moviee and the poem. The first theme that’s the same is that they both have Judgment in them. They both have judgment in them by having the movie judge the blacks in most things that they do and in the poem they judge them by calling the blacks hogs instead of their real name. Another theme they both have in common is racism. The movie has it by the whites calling the blacks names and being disrespectful to them and we also see and read that in the poem. That’s just two of the many themes they have in common.
The next thing the movie and the poem have in common is that they both have similar characters to one another. For example, in the movie they have Jefferson in the jail cell and in the poem they say and mention that someone is penned and put in an inglorious spot, which means that they are in an uncomfortable jail cell. Next, it says in the movie that let him die as a man on the chair and make them proud. Then they go on and say in the poem that let our blood may not be shed but to honor us through death. That’s how they have some characters the
same.
Lastly, we compare how the messages in both the poem and the movie are close to the same message. In the movie they were trying to prove how the black population was ruled in Louisiana by the whites and how making a black man go to the chair proud to be a man for the black population and prove to the whites that they are not scared and have fight in them. In the poem they say “Though far outnumbered let us show us brave, and for their thousand blows deal one deathblow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!”. That’s how these two have the same message.
All in all, the movie and the book were both very good. They both had the similar characters, themes, and also had the same message when compared to each other.