A Lesson before Dying, written by Ernest J Gaines, recalls the story of Jefferson, a black young man that is incriminated for a crime he didn't commit, in the audience he is called "a hog". The protagonist Grant Wiggins is a professor that teaches on a plantation outside the city of Bayonne; he is expected to help Jefferson to die as a man because he is sentenced to die in the electric chair.
There isn't a clear antagonist in this book, but it can be the white jury that judged him even-though he was innocent, and the rest of the white population that exclude and discriminated the black race. The setting is the plantation Bayonne, Louisiana and also the jail in which Jefferson was.The main conflict is Grant trying to help Jefferson die as a man because Grant has to overcome many challenges with his aunt Tante Lou and also with Jefferson because at first he didn't want to speak.
To be sincere I didn't like the story because I think its very repetitive and there's no much action. But some of the things I liked were that the author wanted to give a message to the audience and he wanted to show how the black community have been marginalized only but their skin color and its a type of warning to prevent so it would not happen again. About the writing I liked that it was very clear and not confusing like other books. If I recommend this book I will say to one of my classmates Diego Alejandro because he like to read about this kind of topics.
There isn't a clear antagonist in this book, but it can be the white jury that judged him even-though he was innocent, and the rest of the white population that exclude and discriminated the black race. The setting is the plantation Bayonne, Louisiana and also the jail in which Jefferson was.The main conflict is Grant trying to help Jefferson die as a man because Grant has to overcome many challenges with his aunt Tante Lou and also with Jefferson because at first he didn't want to speak.
To be sincere I didn't like the story because I think its very repetitive and there's no much action. But some of the things I liked were that the author wanted to give a message to the audience and he wanted to show how the black community have been marginalized only but their skin color and its a type of warning to prevent so it would not happen again. About the writing I liked that it was very clear and not confusing like other books. If I recommend this book I will say to one of my classmates Diego Alejandro because he like to read about this kind of topics.