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Original Title:	A Lesson Before Dying
ISBN:	0375702709 (ISBN13: 9780375702709)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Louisiana(United States)
Literary Awards:	National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (1993)

A Lesson Before Dying

Ernest J. Gaines

Paperback | Pages: 256 pages

Rating: 3.95 | 49754 Users | 3270 Reviews

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A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor store shoot out in which three men are killed; the only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, who left his hometown for the university, has returned to the plantation school to teach. As he struggles with his decision whether to stay or escape to another state, his aunt and Jefferson's godmother persuade him to visit Jefferson in his cell and impart his learning and his pride to Jefferson before his death. In the end, the two men forge a bond as they both come to understand the simple heroism of resisting and defying the expected. Ernest J. Gaines brings to this novel the same rich sense of place, the same deep understanding of the human psyche, and the same compassion for a people and their struggle that have informed his previous, highly praised works of fiction.

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Title	:	A Lesson Before Dying
Author	:	Ernest J. Gaines
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	September 28th 1997 by Vintage (first published December 1st 1993)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. African American. Academic. School. Literature. Adult Fiction

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Ratings: 3.95 From 49754 Users | 3270 Reviews

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How did I feel at the end of this book....uplifted and beaten down, both. All the love and all the hate and all the even more stultifying indifference. All the indignity and indignation. So many very heavy feelings spread through this sad story, but there are moments of redemption if you watch carefully for them.Many already know of the story...the teenaged boy who is in the wrong place at the wrong time and ends up sentenced to death. His family wants him to die as a man...and wants--no

This is one of the best books I have ever read. I especially liked the development of Grant. I like the fact that he questions the problems and situations around him. He's not content to stay where he is in life and within himself.

This book was okay. I felt like the author could have done a better job of making interesting characters with multiple dimensions. The only two characters that were even attempted to be portrayed as interesting, evolving people were the two main characters. Everyone else was essentially static representations of a particular caricature (i.e. the girlfriend who represents everything good, the grandma who represents piety, the sheriff who represents bigotry, etc, etc). And even the two characters



I still think about this book, even after reading it months ago. Its a very simple story about two African-American men in 1940s Louisiana; one is a teacher and the other is a uneducated man waiting to be executed for a murder he witnessed, but didnt commit. Both of them have given up hope for their lives, and for humanity in general. They live by the rules of the white majority, and both face a bleak future thats beyond their ability to change. They are forced to spend time together, and

A young, poorly educated black man Jefferson - is sentenced to death despite being innocently present in a failed robbery when two black robbers and one white shopkeeper killed each other. The defending attorney tries to prevent the death sentence by saying it would be more like executing a hog than a civilised human being. As a result Jeffersons elderly churchgoing grandmother and her friend, the narrator Grants Aunt, decide that the narrator a teacher in the local school have to teach him

"I was crying"I finished this novel a few minutes ago. I haven't uttered a word yet. Can't. This is as close as I can come to tears. Tears shedded for beauty, tears shedded for sadness, and tears for hope.... I think I will linger in silence a little while longer....