![]() ![]() Over the next several months, while Jefferson awaits execution, he and Grant forge a bond that enables both men to regain their dignity, reconnect with their community, and learn "the importance of standing. Although convinced that there is nothing he can do, Grant reluctantly agrees to visit Jefferson in jail. To compound the horror of his situation, Jefferson internalizes the attorney's racist depiction of him as a dumb animal.ĭetermined that Jefferson will die with dignity, his godmother ("nannan"), Miss Emma, turns to Grant Wiggins, a black teacher at the local plantation school, and asks him to teach Jefferson to be a man. ![]() and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. In spite of this so-called defense, the all-white jury finds Jefferson guilty. A Lesson Before Dying (Oprahs Book Club) by Gaines, Ernest J. Publication date 1993 Publisher Vintage Books Collection inlibrary printdisabled internetarchivebooks china Digitizing sponsor Internet Archive Contributor Internet Archive Language English. At his trial, Jefferson's court-appointed defense attorney argues that Jefferson lacks the intelligence to plan a robbery, and that, even if he had been involved in the killing, sentencing him to death would be like putting a hog in the electric chair. Set in the fictional community of Bayonne, Louisiana, in the late 1940s, A Lesson Before Dying tells the story of Jefferson, a twenty-one-year-old uneducated black field worker wrongfully accused and convicted of the robbery and murder of a white man, and sentenced to death by electrocution. ![]()
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