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What is the lesson before dying that Gaines shares with his readers?

 

morgan r #258771
Jul 30, 2012 12:58 PM

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What is the lesson before dying that Gaines shares with his readers?

From the book A Lesson before Dying by Ernest Gaines

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jill d #170087
Jul 30, 2012 1:14 PM

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The lesson in "A Lesson Before Dying" is to become a man; to stand up for what you believe; that one man can make a difference. While the condemned man, Jefferson, does learn to become a man not a "hog", it is Grant Wiggins, his teacher, who ultimately learns how to become a "man".

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