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Title: A Lesson Before Dying Character Relationship Analysis
Words: 1623
A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest J. Gaines, a novel about life for blacks in a small Louisiana Cajun community during the late 1940s, dwells heavily on the relationships between the main character, Grant Wiggins, and the other characters of the novel. From these relationships the reader gains an insight into how blacks dealt with the many hardships they were faced with in day-to-day life.
The most foreground relationship in the novel is the one between Grant and Jefferson, the black man on death row whom Grant counsels throughout the novel. At the start of the novel, Grant and Jefferson have no common tie. They know each other, but their relationship is forced and neither enjoys the company of the other. Grant only visits Jefferson because his Aunt and Jefferson's grandma have ...
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