A Lesson Before Dying
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Ganes, Earnest J. . New York: Vintage Books
Setting: The story is set in a small Cajun Louisiana town in the 1940’s.
The setting in this story is significant because, the whole story is about how a young black boy is treated unfairly and sentenced to death because of something he did not do. ....
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.... He doesn’t believe that he is the right person to talk to Jefferson. But by the end of the novel, he figures out what it is to be a man.
Minor Characters: Miss Emma is Jefferson’s grandmother. She is the one who had the whole idea of Grant going up to the jail and talking to Jefferson, showing him that he is a man. Tante Lou is Grant’s aunt. She is the person who raised Grant to be the good, kind person that he is. She is also the one who talked Grant into talking to Jeffe ....
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Word count: 1295
Page count: 5 (approximately 250 words per page)
